diff --git a/extra/python2/build b/extra/python2/build
deleted file mode 100755
index ae85513f..00000000
--- a/extra/python2/build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh -e
-
-patch -p1 < python2-always-pip.patch
-
-./configure \
-    --prefix=/usr \
-    --with-ensurepip=yes
-
-make
-make DESTDIR="$1" install
-
-# Make static library writable.
-chmod u+w "$1/usr/lib/libpython"*.a
-
-# Let's make some kind of effort to reduce the overall
-# size of Python by removing a bunch of rarely used and
-# otherwise useless components.
-#
-# This can't be done via ./configure as the build system
-# doesn't give you this much control over the process.
-{
-    cd "$1/usr/lib/python"*
-    rm -rf test ./*/test ./*/tests
-    rm -rf lib2to3 pydoc* idlelib turtle* ensurepip lib-tk config
-
-    cd "$1/usr/bin"
-    rm -f 2to3* pydoc* idle* python pip
-}
diff --git a/extra/python2/checksums b/extra/python2/checksums
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index 353fcb41..00000000
--- a/extra/python2/checksums
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-b62c0e7937551d0cc02b8fd5cb0f544f9405bafc9a54d3808ed4594812edef43  Python-2.7.18.tar.xz
-1a184c64f85d7a2fb57642135ea298ddd005684c5bd3e601b932cf31b82b9417  python2-always-pip.patch
diff --git a/extra/python2/depends b/extra/python2/depends
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index 4711f7dd..00000000
--- a/extra/python2/depends
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bzip2
-sqlite
-zlib
diff --git a/extra/python2/patches/python2-always-pip.patch b/extra/python2/patches/python2-always-pip.patch
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index 91789c98..00000000
--- a/extra/python2/patches/python2-always-pip.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py b/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py
-index 526dfd0..d85dc33 100644
---- a/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py
-+++ b/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py
-@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ def _bootstrap(*, root=None, upgrade=False, user=False,
-             additional_paths.append(os.path.join(tmpdir, wheel_name))
- 
-         # Construct the arguments to be passed to the pip command
--        args = ["install", "--no-index", "--find-links", tmpdir]
-+        args = ["install", "-I", "--no-index", "--find-links", tmpdir]
-         if root:
-             args += ["--root", root]
-         if upgrade:
diff --git a/extra/python2/sources b/extra/python2/sources
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index 4a76f24e..00000000
--- a/extra/python2/sources
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.18/Python-2.7.18.tar.xz
-patches/python2-always-pip.patch
diff --git a/extra/python2/version b/extra/python2/version
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index 63e54895..00000000
--- a/extra/python2/version
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-2.7.18 3