diff --git a/README.html b/README.html
index 989a1600b..de94d59b5 100644
--- a/README.html
+++ b/README.html
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@
 <li>pysqlite2 (if you have python 2.5, you already have this)</li>
 </ul>
 
-<p><strong>Note to packagers</strong> Gajim is a GTK+ app that loves GNOME. You can do 'make' so you don't require gnomepythonextras (aka gnome-python-desktop) which is gnome dep, but you will miss gnomekeyring integration.</p>
-
 <h2>Optional Runtime Requirements</h2>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="http://pyopenssl.sourceforge.net/">PyOpenSSL</a> (python-pyopenssl package in Debian) (>=0.9) for <em>secure</em> SSL/TLS. Python's default SSL is insecure, so this package is highly recommended!</li>
@@ -40,8 +38,6 @@
 
 <h2>Compile-time Requirements</h2>
 <ul>
-<li>python-dev</li>
-<li>python-gtk2-dev</li>
 <li>intltool (>= 0.40.1)</li>
 </ul>
 
@@ -52,15 +48,10 @@
 <li>tar jxvf gajim-version.tar.bz2</li>
 <li>cd gajim</li>
 <li>./configure</li>
-<li>make (builds all modules)</li>
+<li>make (builds translations)</li>
 <li>su -c make install</li>
 </ol>
 
-<p>To specify what modules to build do:</p>
-<pre>
-    make help
-</pre>
-
 <p>To specify where to install do:</p>
 <pre>
     ./configure --prefix=custom_path
@@ -120,7 +111,7 @@ Wiki can be found at <a href="http://trac.gajim.org/wiki">http://trac.gajim.org/
 <br/>
 <br/>
 <br/>
-(C) 2003-2010<br/>
+(C) 2003-2011<br/>
 The Gajim Team<br/>
 http://gajim.org<br/>
 <br/>
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 0dfcb4fb9..d9ce3bf06 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@ AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.8])
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
 
-dnl Make Objective-C work with automake
-AM_CONDITIONAL([am__fastdepOBJC], false)
-
 IT_PROG_INTLTOOL([0.35.0])
 PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG([0.19])
 
@@ -36,25 +33,10 @@ AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT
 AM_NLS
 
 
-dnl ****
-dnl pygtk and gtk+
-dnl ****
-PKG_CHECK_MODULES([PYGTK], [gtk+-2.0 >= 2.16.0 pygtk-2.0 >= 2.16.0])
-AC_SUBST(PYGTK_CFLAGS)
-AC_SUBST(PYGTK_LIBS)
-PYGTK_DEFS=`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=defsdir pygtk-2.0`
-AC_SUBST(PYGTK_DEFS)
-
-AM_PATH_PYTHON([2.5])
-if test "x$PYTHON" = "x:"; then
-	AC_MSG_ERROR([Python not found])
-fi
-
 ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS="\${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}"
 AC_SUBST(ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS)
 
-AM_CHECK_PYTHON_HEADERS(,[AC_MSG_ERROR(could not find Python headers)])
-AC_SUBST([PYTHON_INCLUDES])
+AM_PATH_PYTHON([2.5])
 
 dnl ****
 dnl enable installation in python-2.x/site-packages/gajim