diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 66b5aa6867bb792b7433a344704412af08dbcc8f..9625948679e94fb791a984010999d67633c423a3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ make
 make install
 ```
 
-Up-to-date dependencies and versions are fully defined in [batsched's CI nix recipe](./default.nix).  
+Up-to-date dependencies and versions are fully defined in [batsched's CI nix recipe](./release.nix).  
 Here is a quick (and probably outdated) list:
 - decent clang/gcc and cmake
 - zmq (C and C++)
diff --git a/default.nix b/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 1f4f120ced27a3b8e5ddeb2f32590adb0dfabe3b..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-let
-  kapack = import
-    ( fetchTarball "https://github.com/oar-team/kapack/archive/master.tar.gz")
-  { };
-in
-
-with kapack;
-
-(batsched_dev.override {}).overrideAttrs (attrs: rec {
-    name = "batsched-1.4.0-nix-local";
-    src = ./.;
-    enableParallelBuilding = true;
-    doCheck = false;
-    dontStrip = true;
-})