diff --git a/share/runtime-cleanup.tmpl b/share/runtime-cleanup.tmpl
index 99922cf9..97dd38fc 100644
--- a/share/runtime-cleanup.tmpl
+++ b/share/runtime-cleanup.tmpl
@@ -1,18 +1,8 @@
 ## lorax template file: cleanup for the ramdisk (runtime image)
-<%page args="removelocales, libdir, product, root"/>
+<%page args="libdir, product, root"/>
 
-## strip unused languages out of the locale-archive
-runcmd localedef --prefix ${root} \
-                 --delete-from-archive ${" ".join(removelocales)}
-move usr/lib/locale/locale-archive usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.tmpl
-runcmd chroot ${root} build-locale-archive
 ## remove the sources
 remove usr/share/i18n
-## remove unused locales
-%for locale in removelocales:
-    remove usr/share/locale/${locale}
-%endfor
-remove usr/share/anaconda/lang-table
 
 ## not required packages installed as dependencies
 ## no perl (it gets pulled in on ppc)
diff --git a/share/runtime-postinstall.tmpl b/share/runtime-postinstall.tmpl
index 114e00b2..41df26d9 100644
--- a/share/runtime-postinstall.tmpl
+++ b/share/runtime-postinstall.tmpl
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ systemctl mask fedora-configure.service fedora-loadmodules.service \
 ## install some basic configuration files
 append etc/resolv.conf ""
 append etc/fstab ""
-copy usr/share/anaconda/lang-table etc
 install ${configdir}/i18n etc/sysconfig
 install ${configdir}/rsyslog.conf etc
 install ${configdir}/bash_history root/.bash_history
diff --git a/src/pylorax/treebuilder.py b/src/pylorax/treebuilder.py
index 95f4a051..b6e5527d 100644
--- a/src/pylorax/treebuilder.py
+++ b/src/pylorax/treebuilder.py
@@ -127,13 +127,7 @@ class RuntimeBuilder(object):
 
     def cleanup(self):
         '''Remove unneeded packages and files with runtime-cleanup.tmpl'''
-        # get removelocales list first
-        localedir = joinpaths(self.vars.root, "usr/share/locale")
-        langtable = joinpaths(self.vars.root, "usr/share/anaconda/lang-table")
-        locales = set([d for d in os.listdir(localedir) if isdir(joinpaths(localedir,d))])
-        keeplocales = [line.split()[1] for line in open(langtable)]
-        removelocales = locales.difference(keeplocales)
-        self._runner.run("runtime-cleanup.tmpl", removelocales=removelocales)
+        self._runner.run("runtime-cleanup.tmpl")
 
     def writepkgsizes(self, pkgsizefile):
         '''debugging data: write a big list of pkg sizes'''