diff --git a/src/nix-activate b/src/nix-activate
deleted file mode 100755
index 9fe6466866..0000000000
--- a/src/nix-activate
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-#! /usr/bin/perl -w
-
-use strict;
-
-my $pkglist = "/home/eelco/.nixactivations";
-
-if (!-f $pkglist) {
-    system "touch $pkglist";
-}
-
-my $hash;
-foreach $hash (@ARGV) {
-    system "grep -q $hash $pkglist";
-    if ($?) {
-	print STDERR "activating $hash\n";
-	system "nix getpkg $hash > /dev/null";
-	if ($?) { die "`nix getpkg' failed"; }
-	system "echo $hash >> $pkglist";
-    }
-}
-
-system "nix-populate";