diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-24/macport-24.3.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-24/macport-24.3.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 191969eef5b0..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-24/macport-24.3.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,98 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, ncurses, pkgconfig, texinfo, libxml2, gnutls
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  emacsName = "emacs-24.3";
-  name = "${emacsName}-mac-4.8";
-
-  #builder = ./builder.sh;
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://gnu/emacs/${emacsName}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "1385qzs3bsa52s5rcncbrkxlydkw0ajzrvfxgv8rws5fx512kakh";
-  };
-
-  macportSrc = fetchurl {
-    url = "ftp://ftp.math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp/emacs/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "194y341zrpjp75mc3099kjc0inr1d379wwsnav257bwsc967h8yx";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [ ncurses pkgconfig texinfo libxml2 gnutls ];
-
-  postUnpack = ''
-    mv $emacsName $name
-    tar xzf $macportSrc
-    mv $name $emacsName
-  '';
-
-  preConfigure = ''
-    patch -p0 < patch-mac
-
-    # The search for 'tputs' will fail because it's in ncursesw within the
-    # ncurses package, yet Emacs' configure script only looks in ncurses.
-    # Further, we need to make sure that the -L option occurs before mention
-    # of the library, so that it finds it within the Nix store.
-    sed -i 's/tinfo ncurses/tinfo ncursesw/' configure
-    ncurseslib=$(echo ${ncurses}/lib | sed 's#/#\\/#g')
-    sed -i "s/OLIBS=\$LIBS/OLIBS=\"-L$ncurseslib \$LIBS\"/" configure
-    sed -i 's/LIBS="\$LIBS_TERMCAP \$LIBS"/LIBS="\$LIBS \$LIBS_TERMCAP"/' configure
-
-    configureFlagsArray=(
-      LDFLAGS=-L${ncurses}/lib
-      --with-xml2=yes
-      --with-gnutls=yes
-      --with-mac
-      --enable-mac-app=$out/Applications
-    )
-    makeFlagsArray=(
-      CFLAGS=-O3
-      LDFLAGS="-O3 -L${ncurses}/lib"
-    );
-  '';
-
-  postInstall = ''
-    cat >$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)))
-
-    ;; make tramp work for NixOS machines
-    (eval-after-load 'tramp '(add-to-list 'tramp-remote-path "/run/current-system/sw/bin"))
-    EOF
-  '';
-
-  doCheck = true;
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    description = "GNU Emacs 24, the extensible, customizable text editor";
-    homepage    = http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/;
-    license     = licenses.gpl3Plus;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ jwiegley ];
-    platforms   = platforms.darwin;
-
-    longDescription = ''
-      GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.  At its
-      core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp
-      programming language with extensions to support text editing.
-
-      The features of GNU Emacs include: content-sensitive editing modes,
-      including syntax coloring, for a wide variety of file types including
-      plain text, source code, and HTML; complete built-in documentation,
-      including a tutorial for new users; full Unicode support for nearly all
-      human languages and their scripts; highly customizable, using Emacs
-      Lisp code or a graphical interface; a large number of extensions that
-      add other functionality, including a project planner, mail and news
-      reader, debugger interface, calendar, and more.  Many of these
-      extensions are distributed with GNU Emacs; others are available
-      separately.
-
-      This is "Mac port" addition to GNU Emacs 24. This provides a native
-      GUI support for Mac OS X 10.4 - 10.9. Note that Emacs 23 and later
-      already contain the official GUI support via the NS (Cocoa) port for
-      Mac OS X 10.4 and later. So if it is good enough for you, then you
-      don't need to try this.
-    '';
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-24/macport-24.4.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-24/macport-24.4.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index b79ac6150edd..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-24/macport-24.4.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,101 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, ncurses, pkgconfig, texinfo, libxml2, gnutls
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  emacsName = "emacs-24.4";
-  name = "${emacsName}-mac-5.3";
-
-  #builder = ./builder.sh;
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://gnu/emacs/${emacsName}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "1zflm6ac34s6v166p58ilxrxbxjm0q2wfc25f8y0mjml1lbr3qs7";
-  };
-
-  macportSrc = fetchurl {
-    url = "ftp://ftp.math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp/emacs/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0qzzqnql0z0a2p3ciccy8gq79v0s7s717lchcprn3wlaqcrk2g1p";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [ ncurses pkgconfig texinfo libxml2 gnutls ];
-
-  postUnpack = ''
-    mv $emacsName $name
-    tar xzf $macportSrc
-    mv $name $emacsName
-  '';
-
-  preConfigure = ''
-    substituteInPlace Makefile.in --replace "/bin/pwd" "pwd"
-    substituteInPlace lib-src/Makefile.in --replace "/bin/pwd" "pwd"
-
-    patch -p0 < patch-mac
-
-    # The search for 'tputs' will fail because it's in ncursesw within the
-    # ncurses package, yet Emacs' configure script only looks in ncurses.
-    # Further, we need to make sure that the -L option occurs before mention
-    # of the library, so that it finds it within the Nix store.
-    sed -i 's/tinfo ncurses/tinfo ncursesw/' configure
-    ncurseslib=$(echo ${ncurses}/lib | sed 's#/#\\/#g')
-    sed -i "s/OLIBS=\$LIBS/OLIBS=\"-L$ncurseslib \$LIBS\"/" configure
-    sed -i 's/LIBS="\$LIBS_TERMCAP \$LIBS"/LIBS="\$LIBS \$LIBS_TERMCAP"/' configure
-
-    configureFlagsArray=(
-      LDFLAGS=-L${ncurses}/lib
-      --with-xml2=yes
-      --with-gnutls=yes
-      --with-mac
-      --enable-mac-app=$out/Applications
-    )
-    makeFlagsArray=(
-      CFLAGS=-O3
-      LDFLAGS="-O3 -L${ncurses}/lib"
-    );
-  '';
-
-  postInstall = ''
-    cat >$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)))
-
-    ;; make tramp work for NixOS machines
-    (eval-after-load 'tramp '(add-to-list 'tramp-remote-path "/run/current-system/sw/bin"))
-    EOF
-  '';
-
-  doCheck = true;
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    description = "GNU Emacs 24, the extensible, customizable text editor";
-    homepage    = http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/;
-    license     = licenses.gpl3Plus;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ jwiegley ];
-    platforms   = platforms.darwin;
-
-    longDescription = ''
-      GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.  At its
-      core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp
-      programming language with extensions to support text editing.
-
-      The features of GNU Emacs include: content-sensitive editing modes,
-      including syntax coloring, for a wide variety of file types including
-      plain text, source code, and HTML; complete built-in documentation,
-      including a tutorial for new users; full Unicode support for nearly all
-      human languages and their scripts; highly customizable, using Emacs
-      Lisp code or a graphical interface; a large number of extensions that
-      add other functionality, including a project planner, mail and news
-      reader, debugger interface, calendar, and more.  Many of these
-      extensions are distributed with GNU Emacs; others are available
-      separately.
-
-      This is "Mac port" addition to GNU Emacs 24. This provides a native
-      GUI support for Mac OS X 10.4 - 10.9. Note that Emacs 23 and later
-      already contain the official GUI support via the NS (Cocoa) port for
-      Mac OS X 10.4 and later. So if it is good enough for you, then you
-      don't need to try this.
-    '';
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-24/macport-24.5.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-24/macport-24.5.nix
index ed4c435c09b8..c778c42de857 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-24/macport-24.5.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-24/macport-24.5.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, ncurses, pkgconfig, texinfo, libxml2, gnutls
-, Carbon, Cocoa, ImageCaptureCore, OSAKit, Quartz, WebKit, gettext
-, AppKit, GSS, ImageIO
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, ncurses, pkgconfig, texinfo, libxml2, gnutls, gettext
+, AppKit, Carbon, Cocoa, IOKit, OSAKit, Quartz, QuartzCore, WebKit
+, ImageCaptureCore, GSS, ImageIO # These may be optional
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
@@ -21,12 +21,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  buildInputs = [
-    ncurses libxml2 gnutls pkgconfig texinfo gettext
-  ];
+  buildInputs = [ ncurses libxml2 gnutls pkgconfig texinfo gettext ];
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [
-    Carbon Cocoa ImageCaptureCore OSAKit Quartz WebKit AppKit GSS ImageIO
+    AppKit Carbon Cocoa IOKit OSAKit Quartz QuartzCore WebKit
+    ImageCaptureCore GSS ImageIO   # may be optional
   ];
 
   postUnpack = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 01fef969bf3f..04c33ff547a0 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -11479,14 +11479,10 @@ let
     withGTK3 = false;
   }));
 
-  emacs24Macport_24_3 = lowPrio (callPackage ../applications/editors/emacs-24/macport-24.3.nix {
-    stdenv = pkgs.clangStdenv;
-  });
-  emacs24Macport_24_4 = lowPrio (callPackage ../applications/editors/emacs-24/macport-24.4.nix {
-    stdenv = pkgs.clangStdenv;
-  });
-  emacs24Macport_24_5 = lowPrio (newScope darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks ../applications/editors/emacs-24/macport-24.5.nix {
-    stdenv = pkgs.clangStdenv;
+  emacs24Macport_24_5 = lowPrio (callPackage ../applications/editors/emacs-24/macport-24.5.nix {
+    inherit (darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks)
+      AppKit Carbon Cocoa IOKit OSAKit Quartz QuartzCore WebKit
+      ImageCaptureCore GSS ImageIO;
   });
   emacs24Macport = self.emacs24Macport_24_5;