diff --git a/packages/lang/Python/patches/010-disable_modules_and_ssl-2.6.1.diff b/packages/lang/Python/patches/010-disable_modules_and_ssl-2.6.1.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index 5e99ac0277..0000000000
--- a/packages/lang/Python/patches/010-disable_modules_and_ssl-2.6.1.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur Python-2.6.1/setup.py Python-2.6.1.patch/setup.py
---- Python-2.6.1/setup.py	2009-02-15 02:05:08.000000000 +0100
-+++ Python-2.6.1.patch/setup.py	2009-02-15 02:14:15.000000000 +0100
-@@ -17,7 +17,14 @@
- from distutils.command.install_lib import install_lib
- 
- # This global variable is used to hold the list of modules to be disabled.
--disabled_module_list = []
-+try:
-+	disabled_module_list = os.environ["PYTHON_DISABLE_MODULES"].split()
-+except KeyError:
-+	disabled_module_list = []
-+try:
-+	disable_ssl = os.environ["PYTHON_DISABLE_SSL"]
-+except KeyError:
-+	disable_ssl = 0
- 
- def add_dir_to_list(dirlist, dir):
-     """Add the directory 'dir' to the list 'dirlist' (at the front) if
-@@ -310,6 +317,7 @@
-         return sys.platform
- 
-     def detect_modules(self):
-+        global disable_ssl
-         # Ensure that /usr/local is always used
-         try:
-             modules_include_dirs = os.environ["PYTHON_MODULES_INCLUDE"].split()
-@@ -632,7 +640,8 @@
-                                      ] )
- 
-         if (ssl_incs is not None and
--            ssl_libs is not None):
-+            ssl_libs is not None and
-+			not disable_ssl):
-             exts.append( Extension('_ssl', ['_ssl.c'],
-                                    include_dirs = ssl_incs,
-                                    library_dirs = ssl_libs,