diff --git a/packages/textproc/xerces-c/build b/packages/textproc/xerces-c/build
deleted file mode 100755
index 8bdc8d32a9..0000000000
--- a/packages/textproc/xerces-c/build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  OpenELEC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
-#  (at your option) any later version.
-#
-#  OpenELEC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-################################################################################
-
-. config/options $1
-
-# xerces_c fails to build with LTO support
-# strip_lto
-
-cd $PKG_BUILD
-./configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
-            --build=$HOST_NAME \
-            --prefix=/usr \
-            --sysconfdir=/etc \
-            --disable-static \
-            --enable-shared \
-            --enable-netaccessor-curl \
-            --enable-netaccessor-socket \
-            --enable-netaccessor-cfurl \
-            --enable-netaccessor-winsock \
-            --enable-transcoder-gnuiconv \
-            --enable-transcoder-iconv \
-            --disable-transcoder-icu \
-            --enable-transcoder-macosunicodeconverter \
-            --enable-transcoder-windows \
-            --enable-msgloader-inmemory \
-            --disable-msgloader-icu \
-            --enable-msgloader-iconv \
-            --disable-rpath \
-            --with-gnu-ld
-
-make
-$MAKEINSTALL
diff --git a/packages/textproc/xerces-c/install b/packages/textproc/xerces-c/install
deleted file mode 100755
index 8789f2400d..0000000000
--- a/packages/textproc/xerces-c/install
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  OpenELEC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
-#  (at your option) any later version.
-#
-#  OpenELEC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-################################################################################
-
-. config/options $1
-
-mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/lib
-  cp -P $PKG_BUILD/src/.libs/*.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
diff --git a/packages/textproc/xerces-c/meta b/packages/textproc/xerces-c/meta
deleted file mode 100644
index 633aae62a0..0000000000
--- a/packages/textproc/xerces-c/meta
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  OpenELEC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
-#  (at your option) any later version.
-#
-#  OpenELEC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-################################################################################
-
-PKG_NAME="xerces-c"
-PKG_VERSION="3.1.1"
-PKG_REV="1"
-PKG_ARCH="any"
-PKG_LICENSE="APL"
-PKG_SITE="http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/"
-PKG_URL="http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/apache/dist/xerces/c/3/sources/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS="curl"
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain curl"
-PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
-PKG_SECTION="textproc"
-PKG_SHORTDESC="xerces-c: A C++ XML parser"
-PKG_LONGDESC="Xerces C++ is a validating XML parser written in a portable subset of C++. It makes it easy to give your application the ability to read and write XML data. A shared library is provided for parsing, generating, manipulating, and validating XML documents. It is faithful to the XML 1. 0 recommendation and associated standards ( DOM 1. 0, DOM 2. 0. SAX 1. 0, SAX 2. 0, Namespaces). It also provides an implementation of a subset of the Schema."
-PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
-
-PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"