diff --git a/app-office/abiword/abiword-2.8.6.recipe b/app-office/abiword/abiword-2.8.6.recipe
index 21de67380..603bb6d9e 100644
--- a/app-office/abiword/abiword-2.8.6.recipe
+++ b/app-office/abiword/abiword-2.8.6.recipe
@@ -1,32 +1,16 @@
+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" 
-SRC_URI="http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/2.8.6/source/abiword-2.8.6.tar.gz"
-REVISION="1"
-STATUS_HAIKU="broken"
-DEPEND="media-libs/jpeg >= 6b
-	media-libs/libpng >= 1.2"
-CHECKSUM_MD5="f883b0a7f26229a9c66fd6a1a94381aa"
+
+ARCHITECTURES="!all"
+
 BUILD()
 {
-	cd abiword-2.8.6
-	autoconf
-	./configure --prefix=`finddir B_COMMON_DIRECTORY` \
-		--with-haiku
-	make
+	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()
 {
-	cd abiword-2.8.6
-	make install
+	echo "Not supported"
 }
-
-TEST()
-{
-	cd abiword-2.8.6
-#	make test
-#	make check
-}
-
-#LICENSE=""
-#COPYRIGHT=""