diff --git a/third_party/nix/corepkgs/meson.build b/third_party/nix/corepkgs/meson.build
deleted file mode 100644
index 383909b0f..000000000
--- a/third_party/nix/corepkgs/meson.build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-corepkgs_data = files(
-    join_paths(meson.source_root(), 'corepkgs/buildenv.nix'),
-    join_paths(meson.source_root(), 'corepkgs/derivation.nix'),
-    join_paths(meson.source_root(), 'corepkgs/fetchurl.nix'),
-    join_paths(meson.source_root(), 'corepkgs/imported-drv-to-derivation.nix'),
-    join_paths(meson.source_root(), 'corepkgs/unpack-channel.nix'))
-
-config_nix = configuration_data()
-config_nix.set('bash', bash.path())
-config_nix.set('coreutils', coreutils)
-config_nix.set('bzip2', bzip2.path())
-config_nix.set('gzip', gzip.path())
-config_nix.set('xz', xz.path())
-config_nix.set('tar', tar.path())
-config_nix.set('tarFlags', '')
-config_nix.set('tr', tr.path())
-config_nix.set('bindir', bindir)
-config_nix.set('prefix', prefix)
-config_nix.set('libexecdir', libexecdir)
-config_nix.set('localstatedir', localstatedir)
-config_nix.set('sysconfdir', sysconfdir)
-config_nix.set('storedir', nixstoredir)
-
-corepkgs_data += configure_file(
-    input : 'config.nix.in',
-    output : 'config.nix',
-    configuration : config_nix)
-
-install_data(
-    corepkgs_data,
-    install_mode : 'rwxr-xr-x',
-    install_dir : join_paths(datadir, 'nix/corepkgs'))
diff --git a/third_party/nix/doc/manual/meson.build b/third_party/nix/doc/manual/meson.build
deleted file mode 100644
index 42e0695a9..000000000
--- a/third_party/nix/doc/manual/meson.build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-# nix manual build file
-#============================================================================
-
-
-# TODO: generate the manual
diff --git a/third_party/nix/doc/meson.build b/third_party/nix/doc/meson.build
deleted file mode 100644
index 6d90b784a..000000000
--- a/third_party/nix/doc/meson.build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-# nix doc build file
-#============================================================================
-
-doc_dirs = [
-  'manual'
-]
-
-if  (not get_option('disable_doc_gen'))
-    xsltproc = find_program('xsltproc', required : true)
-    foreach dir : doc_dirs
-        subdir(dir)
-    endforeach
-endif
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/third_party/nix/misc/meson.build b/third_party/nix/misc/meson.build
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b381de5a..000000000
--- a/third_party/nix/misc/meson.build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-misc_dirs = [
-  'systemd',
-]
-
-foreach dir : misc_dirs
-    subdir(dir)
-endforeach
diff --git a/third_party/nix/misc/systemd/meson.build b/third_party/nix/misc/systemd/meson.build
deleted file mode 100644
index 588f0b3d9..000000000
--- a/third_party/nix/misc/systemd/meson.build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-# nix systemd build file
-#============================================================================
-
-if (sys_name.contains('linux'))
-
-    systemd_data = []
-
-    systemd_nix_daemon = configuration_data()
-    systemd_nix_daemon.set('bindir', bindir)
-    systemd_nix_daemon.set('storedir', nixstoredir)
-    systemd_nix_daemon.set('localstatedir', localstatedir)
-
-    systemd_data += configure_file(
-        input : 'nix-daemon.socket.in',
-        output : 'nix-daemon.socket',
-        configuration : systemd_nix_daemon)
-
-    systemd_data += configure_file(
-        input : 'nix-daemon.service.in',
-        output : 'nix-daemon.service',
-        configuration : systemd_nix_daemon)
-
-    install_data(
-        systemd_data,
-        install_dir : join_paths(prefix, 'lib/systemd/system'))
-endif
diff --git a/third_party/nix/scripts/meson.build b/third_party/nix/scripts/meson.build
deleted file mode 100644
index 8787a185d..000000000
--- a/third_party/nix/scripts/meson.build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-# Nix corepkgs build file
-#============================================================================
-
-
-
-
-# src files
-#============================================================================
-
-scripts_data = files(
-    join_paths(meson.source_root(), 'scripts/install-darwin-multi-user.sh'),
-    join_paths(meson.source_root(), 'scripts/install-multi-user.sh'))
-
-
-
-
-
-# targets
-#============================================================================
-
-nix_profile_sh = configuration_data()
-nix_profile_sh.set('localstatedir', localstatedir)
-nix_profile_sh.set('coreutils', coreutils)
-
-nix_http_export_cgi = configuration_data()
-nix_http_export_cgi.set('bindir', bindir)
-nix_http_export_cgi.set('localstatedir', localstatedir)
-nix_http_export_cgi.set('coreutils', coreutils)
-nix_http_export_cgi.set('gzip', gzip.path())
-
-nix_reduce_build = configuration_data()
-nix_reduce_build.set('bash', bash.path())
-nix_reduce_build.set('bindir', bindir)
-nix_reduce_build.set('localstatedir', localstatedir)
-
-
-# TODO: make these work
-nix_install = configuration_data()
-nix_install.set('nixVersion', package_version)
-nix_install.set('binaryTarball_x86_64-linux', '')
-nix_install.set('binaryTarball_i686-linux', '')
-nix_install.set('binaryTarball_aarch64-linux', '')
-nix_install.set('binaryTarball_x86_64-darwin', '')
-
-
-
-
-# build
-#============================================================================
-
-scripts_data += configure_file(
-    input : 'nix-profile.sh.in',
-    output : 'nix.sh',
-    configuration : nix_profile_sh)
-
-scripts_data += configure_file(
-    input : 'nix-profile-daemon.sh.in',
-    output : 'nix-daemon.sh',
-    configuration : nix_profile_sh)
-
-scripts_data += configure_file(
-    input : 'nix-http-export.cgi.in',
-    output : 'nix-http-export.cgi',
-    configuration : nix_http_export_cgi)
-
-scripts_data += configure_file(
-    input : 'nix-reduce-build.in',
-    output : 'nix-reduce-build',
-    configuration : nix_reduce_build)
-
-install_data(
-    scripts_data,
-    install_mode : 'rwxr-xr-x',
-    install_dir : profiledir)