diff --git a/etc/depends-incl.xml b/etc/depends-incl.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0f18f457..00000000
--- a/etc/depends-incl.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-
-<!-- build configuration -->
-<project name="vilya-checks" basedir=".">
-
-  <!-- checks the availability of certain libraries -->
-  <target name="check-available">
-    <available property="xml-writer.present"
-     classname="com.megginson.sax.DataWriter" classpathref="classpath"/>
-    <echo level="info" message="Have XML Writer: ${xml-writer.present}"/>
-
-    <condition property="build.xml">
-      <isset property="xml-writer.present"/>
-    </condition>
-  </target>
-
-</project>
diff --git a/etc/libs-incl.xml b/etc/libs-incl.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1a78a0e1..00000000
--- a/etc/libs-incl.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!-- declares the libraries needed to build vilya -->
-<project name="library-dependencies">
-  <fileset dir="${libs.dir}" id="vilya.libs">
-    <!-- Java dependencies -->
-    <include name="asc.jar"/>
-    <include name="commons-digester.jar"/>
-    <include name="commons-logging.jar"/>
-    <include name="depot.jar"/>
-    <include name="flexTasks.jar"/>
-    <include name="guava.jar"/>
-    <include name="guice.jar"/>
-    <include name="javassist.jar"/>
-    <include name="jsr250-api.jar"/>
-    <include name="junit4.jar"/>
-    <include name="narya.jar"/>
-    <include name="nenya-cast.jar"/>
-    <include name="nenya-media.jar"/>
-    <include name="nenya-miso.jar"/>
-    <include name="nenya-rsrc.jar"/>
-    <include name="retroweaver-all-1.2.2.jar"/>
-    <include name="samskivert.jar"/>
-    <include name="xml-writer.jar"/>
-    <!-- ActionScript dependencies -->
-    <include name="aspirin*.swc"/>
-    <include name="naryalib.swc"/>
-    <include name="nenyalib.swc"/>
-    <include name="as3isolib-fp9.swc"/>
-    <!-- Thane dependencies -->
-    <include name="thane-0.0-SNAPSHOT.abc"/>
-    <include name="tamarin-builtin.abc"/>
-    <include name="narya-abc.abc"/>
-  </fileset>
-</project>