diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/kanif/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/kanif/default.nix
index bac0cc37af33..5b543854473d 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/kanif/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/kanif/default.nix
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   version = "1.2.2";
   name = "kanif-${version}";
 
-  propagateBuildInputs = [ perl taktuk ];
-
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/26773/${name}.tar.gz";
     sha256 = "3f0c549428dfe88457c1db293cfac2a22b203f872904c3abf372651ac12e5879";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/irods/common.nix b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/irods/common.nix
index 9c5412ddef7c..c7267aca1071 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/irods/common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/irods/common.nix
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ with stdenv;
 
   buildInputs = [ bzip2 zlib autoconf automake cmake gnumake help2man texinfo libtool cppzmq libarchive avro-cpp jansson zeromq openssl pam libiodbc kerberos gcc boost libcxx which ];
 
-  propagateBuildInputs = [ boost ];
-
   cmakeFlags = [
     "-DIRODS_EXTERNALS_FULLPATH_CLANG=${stdenv.cc}"
     "-DIRODS_EXTERNALS_FULLPATH_CLANG_RUNTIME=${stdenv.cc}"
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/irods/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/irods/default.nix
index 0714f2901046..523028f5fb2e 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/irods/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/irods/default.nix
@@ -62,8 +62,6 @@ in rec {
 
      buildInputs = common.buildInputs ++ [ irods ];
 
-     propagateBuildInputs = [ boost ];
-
      preConfigure = common.preConfigure + ''
        patchShebangs ./bin
      '';