diff --git a/app-portage/gentoolkit/gentoolkit-0.4.0.ebuild b/app-portage/gentoolkit/gentoolkit-0.4.0.ebuild
index 75a2edcd90599..871d8dcb64ded 100644
--- a/app-portage/gentoolkit/gentoolkit-0.4.0.ebuild
+++ b/app-portage/gentoolkit/gentoolkit-0.4.0.ebuild
@@ -33,16 +33,6 @@ python_prepare_all() {
 
 python_install_all() {
 	distutils-r1_python_install_all
-
-	# remove on Gentoo Prefix platforms where it's broken anyway
-	if use prefix; then
-		elog "The revdep-rebuild command is removed, the preserve-libs"
-		elog "feature of portage will handle issues."
-		rm "${ED}"/usr/bin/revdep-rebuild*
-		rm "${ED}"/usr/share/man/man1/revdep-rebuild.1
-		rm -rf "${ED}"/etc/revdep-rebuild
-		rm -rf "${ED}"/var
-	fi
 }
 
 pkg_postinst() {