diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3b5800d7a9c88100e3d66de5e4e3ff3a36183c31..a3f9340ca7ab9c1ebde962bcecaff81cefeb5fc7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -39,8 +39,6 @@ rerun
 
 	make update
 
-The repository paths may be changed locally by creating a file `modules.local`.
-
 `make update` also applies the patches that can be found in the directories found in
 `patches`; the resulting branch will be called `patched`, while the commit specified in `modules`
 can be refered to by the branch `base`.
@@ -64,4 +62,4 @@ If applying a patch fails because you have changed the base commit, the reposito
 and you can try rebasing it onto the new `base` branch yourself and after that call `make update-patches` to fix the problem.
 
 Always call `make update-patches` after making changes to a module repository as `make update` will overwrite your
-commits, making `git reflog` the only way to recover them!
\ No newline at end of file
+commits, making `git reflog` the only way to recover them!
diff --git a/modules b/modules
index 730191df5f54ceb3f6cee2d65b5e307ec5174462..934a44749ab4e999bebdf0b31da8e92665b5c10a 100644
--- a/modules
+++ b/modules
@@ -14,6 +14,3 @@ PACKAGES_ROUTING_COMMIT=0e4201a983df967e88e6ce5451f5f5f99bab2370
 
 PACKAGES_LUCI_REPO=https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/luci.git
 PACKAGES_LUCI_COMMIT=bed710786d8a3a63f5908823e6382a51efc91003
-
-# It is possible to change the values defined in this file in a new file `modules.local`
-if [ -f modules.local ]; then . ./modules.local; fi