diff --git a/sys-devel/parity/parity-9999.ebuild b/sys-devel/parity/parity-9999.ebuild
index d6e19cd51a49b..381b4c753823f 100644
--- a/sys-devel/parity/parity-9999.ebuild
+++ b/sys-devel/parity/parity-9999.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
@@ -18,19 +18,6 @@ LICENSE="LGPL-3"
 SLOT="0"
 IUSE=""
 
-pkg_setup() {
-	if [ -z "${MSSDK}" ]; then
-		einfo "NOTE: When using Visual Studio 2008, the Platform SDK is no longer"
-		einfo "installed alongside with the other components, but has it's own"
-		einfo "root directory, most likely something like this:"
-		einfo ""
-		einfo "  C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SDKs\\Windows\\v6.0A"
-		einfo ""
-		einfo "To make parity find it's paths correctly, please set MSSDK to the"
-		einfo "value correspoding to the above example for your system."
-	fi
-}
-
 if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]]; then
 	src_prepare() {
 		confix --bootstrap || die