diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index a208151ac..8ce06800b 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ configdata += {
   'HAVE_BOEHMGC': boehm.found().to_int(),
 }
 
-boost = dependency('boost', required : true, modules : ['context', 'coroutine', 'container'])
+boost = dependency('boost', required : true, modules : ['container'])
 
 # cpuid only makes sense on x86_64
 cpuid_required = is_x64 ? get_option('cpuid') : false
diff --git a/src/libexpr/eval.cc b/src/libexpr/eval.cc
index 77b46c2ed..5e6c71e1f 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/eval.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/eval.cc
@@ -42,10 +42,6 @@
 #include <gc/gc.h>
 #include <gc/gc_cpp.h>
 
-#include <boost/coroutine2/coroutine.hpp>
-#include <boost/coroutine2/protected_fixedsize_stack.hpp>
-#include <boost/context/stack_context.hpp>
-
 #endif
 
 using json = nlohmann::json;
diff --git a/src/libutil/serialise.cc b/src/libutil/serialise.cc
index a294a7ea1..f1db05b0b 100644
--- a/src/libutil/serialise.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/serialise.cc
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
 #include <cerrno>
 #include <memory>
 
-#include <boost/coroutine2/coroutine.hpp>
-
 
 namespace nix {