diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
index 36e345ecf..f64b6cb17 100644
--- a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
@@ -18,10 +18,8 @@
allowedReferences. But instead of only enforcing
to explicitly specify the immediate references, it requires the
derivation to specify all the dependencies recursively (hence the
- name, requisites) that are used by the resulting output. This is
- used in NixOS when rebuilding the stdenv on Linux to ensure that the
- resulting stdenv doesn't have any surprising dependency, e.g. on
- bootstrapTools.
+ name, requisites) that are used by the resulting
+ output.
diff --git a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
index d51f80771..c4f069893 100644
--- a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
@@ -1583,10 +1583,7 @@ allowedReferences = [ foobar ];
enforces that the output of a derivation cannot have any other
runtime dependency than foobar, and in addition
it enforces that foobar itself doesn't
- introduce any other dependency itself. This is used in NixOS when
- rebuilding the stdenv on Linux to ensure that the resulting stdenv
- doesn't have any surprising dependency, e.g. on
- bootstrapTools.
+ introduce any other dependency itself.