diff --git a/app-office/abiword/abiword-2.8.6.recipe b/app-office/abiword/abiword-2.8.6.recipe
deleted file mode 100644
index 603bb6d9e..000000000
--- a/app-office/abiword/abiword-2.8.6.recipe
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY="AbiWord used to work on BeOS but support has long since been removed from AbiWord to build on BeOS/Haiku.  Perhaps revisit this if/when they finsihed their port to Qt."
-DESCRIPTION="AbiWord" 
-HOMEPAGE="http://www.abisource.com" 
-
-ARCHITECTURES="!all"
-
-BUILD()
-{
-	echo "AbiWord does not support Haiku, so this will not be fixed in 2.x"
-	echo "Abiword is working on a port to Qt in their post 3.x releases, but it's not yet working."
-}
-
-INSTALL()
-{
-	echo "Not supported"
-}
diff --git a/app-office/abiword/patches/abiword-2.8.6.patch b/app-office/abiword/patches/abiword-2.8.6.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 10796bf2b..000000000
--- a/app-office/abiword/patches/abiword-2.8.6.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,84 +0,0 @@
-diff -urN abiword-2.8.6/configure.in abiword-2.8.6-haiku/configure.in
---- abiword-2.8.6/configure.in	2010-06-13 13:52:21.002883584 +0000
-+++ abiword-2.8.6-haiku/configure.in	2011-04-14 13:24:55.000000000 +0000
-@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@
-   ${gsf_req}
-   ${wv_req}
- "
-+haiku_pkgs="
-+  ${fribidi_req}
-+"
- 
- # optional deps
- enchant_req='enchant >= 1.2.0'
-@@ -119,6 +122,9 @@
- # win32 deps
- win_pkgs="$enchant_req"
- 
-+#haiku deps
-+haiku_pkgs=""
-+
- #
- # System tests
- #
-@@ -144,6 +150,10 @@
-     PLATFORM="win"
-     TOOLKIT="win"
-     ;;
-+  *haiku*)
-+    PLATFORM="haiku"
-+    TOOLKIT="haiku"
-+    ;;
-   *)
-     PLATFORM="unix"
-     TOOLKIT="gtk"
-@@ -408,6 +418,16 @@
-         fi
- ])
- 
-+AC_ARG_WITH([haiku],
-+	[AS_HELP_STRING([--with-haiku], [(Haiku only) add `finddir B_COMMON_DIRECTORY' prefix to CPP/LDFLAGS])], 
-+[
-+        if test "x$withval" != "xno"; then
-+                CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I`finddir B_COMMON_DIRECTORY`/include"
-+                LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L`finddir B_COMMON_DIRECTORY`/lib"
-+		CC=$CXX
-+        fi
-+])
-+
- AC_ARG_WITH([fink],
- 	[AS_HELP_STRING([--with-fink], [(Mac OSX only) add `/sw' prefix to CPP/LDFLAGS])], 
- [
-@@ -514,11 +534,14 @@
- 	deps_pkgs="$deps_pkgs $cocoa_pkgs"
- 	SYSTEM_LIBS="-framework Cocoa"
- 	AC_CHECK_PROG([CONVERT], [convert], convert, AC_MSG_ERROR(Cannot find ImageMagick convert))
-+elif test "$TOOLKIT" = "haiku"; then
-+	deps_pkgs="$haiku_pkgs"
-+	SYSTEM_LIBS="-lbe -lroot -lnetwork"
- else
- 	deps_pkgs="$deps_pkgs $gtk_pkgs"
- fi
- 
--PKG_CHECK_MODULES(DEPS,[$deps_pkgs])
-+#PKG_CHECK_MODULES(DEPS,[$deps_pkgs])
- dnl specific gtk214 test.
- if test "$TOOLKIT" = "gtk"; then
- 	PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK214, gtk+-2.0 > 2.14, [abi_cv_gtk214=yes], 
-@@ -647,6 +670,7 @@
- AM_CONDITIONAL([TOOLKIT_COCOA], test "$TOOLKIT" == "cocoa")
- AM_CONDITIONAL([TOOLKIT_GTK], test "$TOOLKIT" == "gtk")
- AM_CONDITIONAL([TOOLKIT_WIN], test "$TOOLKIT" == "win")
-+AM_CONDITIONAL([TOOLKIT_HAIKU], test "$TOOLKIT" == "haiku")
- 
- if test "$enable_dynamic" == ""; then
- 	enable_dynamic="no"
-@@ -783,7 +807,7 @@
- 		eval $(echo "enable_$plugin")="auto"
- 	done
- else
--	default_plugins="opendocument"
-+	default_plugins="" 
- 
- 	if test "$abi_cv_disable_default_plugins" != "yes"; then
- 		PLUGINS="$default_plugins"