diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/ed/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/ed/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 99357d863418..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/ed/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl}: stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "ed-0.9";
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = mirror://gnu/ed/ed-0.9.tar.bz2;
-    sha256 = "1xy746g7ai9gmv6iq2x1ll8x6wy4fi9anfh7gj5ifsdnaiahgyi2";
-  };
-}