diff --git a/dev-ruby/ruby-augeas/files/ruby-augeas-0.4.1-libxml2.patch b/dev-ruby/ruby-augeas/files/ruby-augeas-0.4.1-libxml2.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e8464c2505c80..0000000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/ruby-augeas/files/ruby-augeas-0.4.1-libxml2.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- ext/augeas/extconf.rb.~1~	2012-10-26 10:39:01.240720232 +0200
-+++ ext/augeas/extconf.rb	2012-10-26 10:53:12.413324140 +0200
-@@ -27,4 +27,8 @@
-     raise "augeas-devel not installed"
- end
- 
-+unless pkg_config("libxml-2.0")
-+    raise "libxml2-devel not installed"
-+end
-+
- create_makefile(extension_name)