diff --git a/common/xbps-src/shutils/remove_obsoletes.sh b/common/xbps-src/shutils/remove_obsoletes.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 3c4222125aa..00000000000
--- a/common/xbps-src/shutils/remove_obsoletes.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-remove_obsoletes () {
-    for repo in $XBPS_HOSTDIR/binpkgs $XBPS_HOSTDIR/binpkgs/debug $XBPS_HOSTDIR/binpkgs/nonfree $XBPS_HOSTDIR/binpkgs/multilib/  $XBPS_HOSTDIR/binpkgs/multilib/nonfree ; do
-        msg_normal "Cleaning $repo\n"
-        XBPS_ARCH=${XBPS_CROSS_BUILD:-$XBPS_MACHINE} $XBPS_RINDEX_CMD -r $repo
-    done
-}
diff --git a/xbps-src b/xbps-src
index 379bdd36bfd..9d88873ab2c 100755
--- a/xbps-src
+++ b/xbps-src
@@ -78,9 +78,6 @@ remove <pkgname>
 remove-autodeps
     Removes all package dependencies that were installed automatically.
 
-remove-obsoletes
-    Remove all obsolete packages from default repositories as detected by xbps-rindex.
-
 purge-distfiles
     Removes all obsolete distfiles in <hostdir>/sources.
 
@@ -802,9 +799,6 @@ case "$XBPS_TARGET" in
         read_pkg
         remove_pkg $XBPS_CROSS_BUILD
         ;;
-    remove-obsoletes)
-        remove_obsoletes
-        ;;
     list)
         $XBPS_QUERY_CMD -l
         ;;