diff --git a/mingw-w64-libpaper/PKGBUILD b/mingw-w64-libpaper/PKGBUILD
index 517d7a47a8..c55271a35c 100644
--- a/mingw-w64-libpaper/PKGBUILD
+++ b/mingw-w64-libpaper/PKGBUILD
@@ -53,8 +53,4 @@ check() {
 package() {
   cd "${srcdir}"/build-${CARCH}
   make install DESTDIR="${pkgdir}"
-
-  # add systemwide default papersize read by many office applications
-  install -dm 755 ${pkgdir}${MINGW_PREFIX}/etc
-  echo '# Simply write the paper name. See papersize(5) for possible values' > ${pkgdir}${MINGW_PREFIX}/etc/papersize
 }