diff --git a/releng.wtpbuilder/components/wtp-patches-tests/dependency.xml b/releng.wtpbuilder/components/wtp-patches-tests/dependency.xml
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index 8e2981a3de9edad61716d0738b9a81695baa3152..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/releng.wtpbuilder/components/wtp-patches-tests/dependency.xml
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@@ -1,84 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!-- ====================================================================== 
-    Properties that must be passed to this script:
-    base.install.dir
-    dependencyTargets
-    local.cache.dir
-    dependency.properties
-    
-    
-    ====================================================================== -->
-<project
-    name="test"
-    default="get">
-
-    <target name="get">
-        <antcall target="getAndInstall">
-            <param
-                name="groupId"
-                value="emf" />
-        </antcall>
-        <antcall target="getAndInstall">
-            <param
-                name="groupId"
-                value="gef" />
-        </antcall>
-
-        <antcall target="getAndInstall">
-            <param
-                name="groupId"
-                value="eclipse" />
-        </antcall>
-        <antcall target="getAndInstall">
-            <param
-                name="groupId"
-                value="eclipseTestFramework" />
-        </antcall>
-
-
-        <!-- for patch builds, also get a whole released version to 
-            compile against -->
-        <antcall target="getAndInstall">
-            <param
-                name="groupId"
-                value="wtp" />
-        </antcall>
-        <!-- including tests -->
-        <antcall target="getAndInstall">
-            <param
-                name="groupId"
-                value="wtp-wst-test" />
-        </antcall>
-        <antcall target="getAndInstall">
-            <param
-                name="groupId"
-                value="wtp-jst-test" />
-        </antcall>
-    </target>
-
-
-    <target name="getAndInstall">
-        <ant
-            antfile="${dependencyTargets}"
-            target="checkDependency">
-            <property
-                name="groupId"
-                value="${groupId}" />
-        </ant>
-        <ant
-            antfile="${dependencyTargets}"
-            target="installDependency">
-            <property
-                name="groupId"
-                value="${groupId}" />
-            <property
-                name="install.destination"
-                value="${base.install.dir}" />
-        </ant>
-    </target>
-
-
-
-
-</project>
-
diff --git a/releng.wtpbuilder/localBuildExample/buildutilities.properties b/releng.wtpbuilder/localBuildExample/buildutilities.properties
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index 20733ef88e04517ac3673d37cb7f10d8a2f9afab..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/releng.wtpbuilder/localBuildExample/buildutilities.properties
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@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-
-# it is faster, for local builds to not do normalization. 
-# it is only needed when pack200 is required
-normalizeJarFiles=false
diff --git a/releng.wtpbuilder/localBuildExample/description.txt b/releng.wtpbuilder/localBuildExample/description.txt
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index 126b4753fb026e555e96a3c165eb5a71c201bab5..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/releng.wtpbuilder/localBuildExample/description.txt
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@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-
-The files in this directory are not used 
-in production builds. 
-
-The are given here as examples of how someone might
-override various build properties on their own machine, 
-to do "local builds".  
-
-These files, if used, should be in the directory named in 
-the LOCAL_BUILD_PROPERTIES_DIR environment variable, which 
-is set in the "commonVariations" file.