diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e8a694b694..0ba341b4cc 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -389,27 +389,6 @@ include fs/common.mk
 
 include $(BR2_EXTERNAL)/external.mk
 
-PACKAGES_SOURCE := $(patsubst %,%-source,$(PACKAGES))
-
-# host-* dependencies have to be handled specially, as those aren't
-# visible in Kconfig and hence not added to a variable like PACKAGES.
-# instead, find all the host-* targets listed in each <PKG>_DEPENDENCIES
-# variable for each enabled target.
-# Notice: this only works for newstyle gentargets/autotargets packages
-TARGETS_HOST_DEPS = $(sort $(filter host-%,$(foreach dep,\
-		$(addsuffix _DEPENDENCIES,\
-			$(call UPPERCASE,$(PACKAGES) $(TARGETS_ROOTFS))),\
-		$($(dep)))))
-# Host packages can in turn have their own dependencies. Likewise find
-# all the package names listed in the HOST_<PKG>_DEPENDENCIES for each
-# host package found above. Ideally this should be done recursively until
-# no more packages are found, but that's hard to do in make, so limit to
-# 1 level for now.
-HOST_DEPS = $(sort $(foreach dep,\
-		$(addsuffix _DEPENDENCIES,$(call UPPERCASE,$(TARGETS_HOST_DEPS))),\
-		$($(dep))))
-HOST_SOURCE += $(addsuffix -source,$(sort $(TARGETS_HOST_DEPS) $(HOST_DEPS)))
-
 dirs: $(BUILD_DIR) $(STAGING_DIR) $(TARGET_DIR) \
 	$(HOST_DIR) $(BINARIES_DIR)