diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-snapshot/builder.sh b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-snapshot/builder.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 677311c4fd30..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-snapshot/builder.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-source $stdenv/setup
-
-preConfigure() {
-    libc=$(cat ${NIX_GCC}/nix-support/orig-libc)
-    echo "libc: $libc"
-
-    for i in src/s/*.h src/m/*.h; do
-        substituteInPlace $i \
-            --replace /usr/lib/crt1.o $libc/lib/crt1.o \
-            --replace /usr/lib/crti.o $libc/lib/crti.o \
-            --replace /usr/lib/crtn.o $libc/lib/crtn.o
-    done
-    
-    for i in Makefile.in ./src/Makefile.in ./lib-src/Makefile.in ./leim/Makefile.in; do
-        substituteInPlace $i --replace /bin/pwd pwd
-    done
-}
-
-preBuild="make bootstrap"
-
-genericBuild
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-snapshot/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-snapshot/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 1ae864336e58..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-snapshot/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-{ xawSupport ? true
-, xpmSupport ? true
-, dbusSupport ? true
-, xaw3dSupport ? false
-, gtkGUI ? false
-, xftSupport ? false
-, stdenv, fetchcvs, ncurses, x11, libXaw ? null, libXpm ? null, Xaw3d ? null
-, pkgconfig ? null, gtk ? null, libXft ? null, dbus ? null
-, libpng, libjpeg, libungif, libtiff, texinfo
-, autoconf, automake
-}:
-
-assert xawSupport -> libXaw != null;
-assert xpmSupport -> libXpm != null;
-assert dbusSupport -> dbus != null;
-assert xaw3dSupport -> Xaw3d != null;
-assert gtkGUI -> pkgconfig != null && gtk != null;
-assert xftSupport -> libXft != null && libpng != null; # libpng = probably a bug
-
-let date = "2009-06-26"; in
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "emacs-snapshot-23-${date}";
-  
-  builder = ./builder.sh;
-  
-  src = fetchcvs {
-    inherit date;
-    cvsRoot = ":pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs";
-    module = "emacs";
-    sha256 = "bf9b21a0634f45474a1ce91e6153ced69194f1e9c0acd6626a931198f4a5972f";
-  };
-
-  preConfigure = "autoreconf -vfi";
-  
-  buildInputs = [
-    autoconf automake
-    ncurses x11 texinfo
-    (if xawSupport then libXaw else null)
-    (if xpmSupport then libXpm else null)
-    (if dbusSupport then dbus else null)
-    (if xaw3dSupport then Xaw3d else null)
-    libpng libjpeg libungif libtiff # maybe not strictly required?
-  ]
-  ++ (if gtkGUI then [pkgconfig gtk] else [])
-  ++ (if xftSupport then [libXft] else []);
-  
-  configureFlags = "
-    ${if gtkGUI then "--with-x-toolkit=gtk --enable-font-backend --with-xft" else ""}
-  ";
-
-  postInstall = ''
-    cat >$out/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el <<EOF
-;; nixos specific load-path
-(when (getenv "NIX_PROFILES") (setq load-path
-                      (append (reverse (mapcar (lambda (x) (concat x "/share/emacs/site-lisp/"))
-                                               (split-string (getenv "NIX_PROFILES"))))
-                       load-path)))
-EOF
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "GNU Emacs with Unicode, GTK and Xft support (23.x alpha)";
-    homepage = http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs;
-    license = "GPLv3+";
-    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.ludo ];
-    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;  # GTK & co. are needed.
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index d9dd790011cd..d1da2635245d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6646,14 +6646,6 @@ let
     librsvg = if stdenv.isDarwin then null else librsvg;
   });
 
-  emacsSnapshot = lowPrio (callPackage ../applications/editors/emacs-snapshot {
-    xawSupport = getConfig [ "emacs" "xawSupport" ] false;
-    xaw3dSupport = getConfig [ "emacs" "xaw3dSupport" ] false;
-    gtkGUI = getConfig [ "emacs" "gtkSupport" ] true;
-    xftSupport = getConfig [ "emacs" "xftSupport" ] true;
-    dbusSupport = getConfig [ "emacs" "dbusSupport" ] true;
-  });
-
   emacsPackages = emacs: self: let callPackage = newScope self; in rec {
     inherit emacs;