diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index db9ce74..56e3606 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ Changes
 - The ``wsgilog`` option has been deprecated, the old apache mod_wsgi script
   hasn't been used for a long time.
 
+- Removed old pth option, previously used for pinax. Pinax uses proper python
+  packages since a long time, so it isn't needed anymore.
+
 
 1.11 (2014-11-21)
 -----------------
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 4934341..a1f1c43 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -55,10 +55,6 @@ extra-paths
   path for the `bin/*` scripts. Use this if you have code somewhere without a
   proper ``setup.py``.
 
-pth-files
-  Adds paths found from a site `.pth` file to the extra-paths.
-  Useful for things like Pinax which maintains its own external_libs dir.
-
 control-script
   The name of the script created in the bin folder. This script is the
   equivalent of the `manage.py` Django normally creates. By default it
@@ -135,49 +131,6 @@ The next example shows you how to use some more of the options::
   dotted-settings-path = projectconfig.production.settings
 
 
-Example using .pth files
--------------------------
-
-Pinax uses a .pth file to add a bunch of libraries to its path; we can
-specify it's directory to get the libraries it specified added to our
-path::
-
-  [buildout]
-  parts	= PIL
-	  svncode
-	  myproject
-  versions=versions
-
-  [versions]
-  django	= 1.3
-
-  [PIL]
-  recipe	= zc.recipe.egg:custom
-  egg		= PIL
-  find-links	= http://dist.repoze.org/
-
-  [svncode]
-  recipe	= iw.recipe.subversion
-  urls		= http://svn.pinaxproject.com/pinax/tags/0.5.1rc1	pinax
-
-  [myproject]
-  recipe	= djangorecipe
-  eggs		=
-    PIL
-  project	= myproject
-  settings	= settings
-  extra-paths	= ${buildout:directory}/myproject/apps
-		  ${svncode:location}/pinax/apps/external_apps
-		  ${svncode:location}/pinax/apps/local_apps
-  pth-files	= ${svncode:location}/pinax/libs/external_libs
-  wsgi		= true
-
-Above, we use stock Pinax for pth-files and extra-paths paths for
-apps, and our own project for the path that will be found first in the
-list.  Note that we expect our project to be checked out (e.g., by
-svn:external) directly under this directory in to 'myproject'.
-
-
 Example with a Django version from a repository
 ---------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/src/djangorecipe/recipe.py b/src/djangorecipe/recipe.py
index 46de6b2..aa4bbdf 100644
--- a/src/djangorecipe/recipe.py
+++ b/src/djangorecipe/recipe.py
@@ -145,23 +145,8 @@ def make_wsgi_script(self, extra_paths, ws):
 
     def get_extra_paths(self):
         extra_paths = [self.buildout['buildout']['directory']]
-
-        # Add libraries found by a site .pth files to our extra-paths.
-        if 'pth-files' in self.options:
-            import site
-            for pth_file in self.options['pth-files'].splitlines():
-                pth_libs = site.addsitedir(pth_file, set())
-                if not pth_libs:
-                    self.log.warning(
-                        "No site *.pth libraries found for pth_file=%s",
-                        pth_file)
-                else:
-                    self.log.info("Adding *.pth libraries=%s", pth_libs)
-                    self.options['extra-paths'] += '\n' + '\n'.join(pth_libs)
-
         pythonpath = [p.replace('/', os.path.sep) for p in
                       self.options['extra-paths'].splitlines() if p.strip()]
-
         extra_paths.extend(pythonpath)
         return extra_paths
 
diff --git a/src/djangorecipe/tests/tests.py b/src/djangorecipe/tests/tests.py
index bb81031..60df038 100644
--- a/src/djangorecipe/tests/tests.py
+++ b/src/djangorecipe/tests/tests.py
@@ -115,23 +115,6 @@ def test_extra_paths(self, manage, working_set):
         self.assertEqual(manage.call_args[0][0][-2:],
                          ['somepackage', 'anotherpackage'])
 
-    @mock.patch('zc.recipe.egg.egg.Scripts.working_set',
-                return_value=(None, []))
-    @mock.patch('site.addsitedir', return_value=['extra', 'dirs'])
-    def test_pth_files(self, addsitedir, working_set):
-
-        # When a pth-files option is set the recipe will use that to add more
-        # paths to extra-paths.
-        self.recipe.options['version'] = '1.0'
-
-        # The mock values needed to demonstrate the pth-files option.
-        self.recipe.options['pth-files'] = 'somedir'
-        self.recipe.install()
-
-        self.assertEqual(addsitedir.call_args, (('somedir', set([])), {}))
-        # The extra-paths option has been extended.
-        self.assertEqual(self.recipe.options['extra-paths'], '\nextra\ndirs')
-
     def test_settings_option(self):
         # The settings option can be used to specify the settings file
         # for Django to use. By default it uses `development`.