diff --git a/package/system/opkg/patches/280-use-vfork.patch b/package/system/opkg/patches/280-use-vfork.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 1c46f52b02..0000000000
--- a/package/system/opkg/patches/280-use-vfork.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- a/libbb/gz_open.c
-+++ b/libbb/gz_open.c
-@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
- #include <unistd.h>
- #include "libbb.h"
- 
--static int gz_use_vfork;
-+static const int gz_use_vfork = 1;
- 
- FILE *
- gz_open(FILE *compressed_file, int *pid)
-@@ -38,8 +38,6 @@ gz_open(FILE *compressed_file, int *pid)
- 	off_t floc;
- 	int cfile = -1;
- 
--	gz_use_vfork = (getenv("OPKG_USE_VFORK") != NULL);
--
- 	if (gz_use_vfork) {
- 		/* Create a new file descriptor for the input stream
- 		 * (it *must* be associated with a file), and lseek()