diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/findutils/4.2.27.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/findutils/4.2.27.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 591134d692d1..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/findutils/4.2.27.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, coreutils}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "findutils-4.2.27";
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nixos.org/tarballs/findutils-4.2.27.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "f1e0ddf09f28f8102ff3b90f3b5bc920";
-  };
-  buildInputs = [coreutils];
-  patches = [./findutils-path.patch]
-    # Note: the dietlibc is just to get findutils to compile.  The
-    # locate command probably won't work though.
-    ++ (if stdenv ? isDietLibC then [./dietlibc-hack.patch] else []);
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index dabb187a62d1..dacac442af2e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -718,12 +718,7 @@ let
 
   fileschanged = callPackage ../tools/misc/fileschanged { };
 
-  findutils =
-    if stdenv.isDarwin
-    then findutils4227
-    else callPackage ../tools/misc/findutils { };
-
-  findutils4227 = callPackage ../tools/misc/findutils/4.2.27.nix { };
+  findutils = callPackage ../tools/misc/findutils { };
 
   finger_bsd = callPackage ../tools/networking/bsd-finger { };