diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/machine-learning/torch/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/machine-learning/torch/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index bdeeaad189a7..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/machine-learning/torch/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-{ callPackage, fetchgit, lua } :
-let
-  src = fetchgit {
-    url = "https://github.com/grwlf/torch-distro";
-    rev = "f972c4253b14b95b53aefe7b24efa496223e73f2";
-    sha256 = "1lhjhivhyypaic33vj1nsghshsajf7vi6gwsclaf3nqdl27d1h1s";
-  };
-
-in
-  callPackage (import ./torch-distro.nix) { inherit lua src; }
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/machine-learning/torch/torch-distro.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/machine-learning/torch/torch-distro.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 73272df99221..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/machine-learning/torch/torch-distro.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,336 +0,0 @@
-{ luarocks, lib , stdenv,  readline,  makeWrapper,
-  less, ncurses, cmake, coreutils, fetchgit, libuuid, czmq, openssl,
-  gnuplot, lua, src, libjpeg, libpng
-} :
-
-let
-
-  common_meta = {
-    homepage = http://torch.ch;
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
-    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ smironov ];
-    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.gnu ++ stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
-  };
-
-  distro_src = src;
-
-  default_luarocks = luarocks;
-
-  pkgs_gnuplot = gnuplot;
-
-  luapkgs = rec {
-
-    luarocks = default_luarocks.override {
-      inherit lua;
-    };
-
-    buildLuaRocks = { rockspec ? "", luadeps ? [] , buildInputs ? []
-                    , preBuild ? "" , postInstall ? ""
-                    , runtimeDeps ? [] ,  ... }@args :
-      let
-
-        luadeps_ =
-          luadeps ++
-          (lib.concatMap (d : if d ? luadeps then d.luadeps else []) luadeps);
-
-        runtimeDeps_ =
-          runtimeDeps ++
-          (lib.concatMap (d : if d ? runtimeDeps then d.runtimeDeps else []) luadeps) ++
-          [ lua coreutils ];
-
-        mkcfg = ''
-          export LUAROCKS_CONFIG=config.lua
-          cat >config.lua <<EOF
-            rocks_trees = {
-                 { name = [[system]], root = [[${luarocks}]] }
-               ${lib.concatImapStrings (i : dep :  ", { name = [[dep${toString i}]], root = [[${dep}]] }") luadeps_}
-            };
-
-            variables = {
-              LUA_BINDIR = "$out/bin";
-              LUA_INCDIR = "$out/include";
-              LUA_LIBDIR = "$out/lib/lua/${lua.luaversion}";
-            };
-          EOF
-        '';
-
-      in
-      stdenv.mkDerivation (args // {
-
-        name = "${args.name}-${lua.luaversion}";
-
-        inherit preBuild postInstall;
-
-        inherit luadeps runtimeDeps;
-
-        phases = [ "unpackPhase" "patchPhase" "buildPhase"];
-
-        buildInputs = runtimeDeps ++ buildInputs ++ [ makeWrapper lua ];
-
-        buildPhase = ''
-          eval "$preBuild"
-          ${mkcfg}
-          eval "`${luarocks}/bin/luarocks --deps-mode=all --tree=$out path`"
-          ${luarocks}/bin/luarocks make --deps-mode=all --tree=$out ${rockspec}
-
-          for p in $out/bin/*; do
-            wrapProgram $p \
-              --suffix LD_LIBRARY_PATH ';' "${lib.makeLibraryPath runtimeDeps_}" \
-              --suffix PATH ';' "${lib.makeBinPath runtimeDeps_}" \
-              --suffix LUA_PATH ';' "\"$LUA_PATH\"" \
-              --suffix LUA_PATH ';' "\"$out/share/lua/${lua.luaversion}/?.lua;$out/share/lua/${lua.luaversion}/?/init.lua\"" \
-              --suffix LUA_CPATH ';' "\"$LUA_CPATH\"" \
-              --suffix LUA_CPATH ';' "\"$out/lib/lua/${lua.luaversion}/?.so;$out/lib/lua/${lua.luaversion}/?/init.so\""
-          done
-
-          eval "$postInstall"
-        '';
-      });
-
-    # FIXME: doesn't installs lua-files for some reason
-    # lua-cjson = buildLuaPackage {
-    #   name = "lua-cjson";
-    #   src = ./extra/lua-cjson;
-    #   rockspec = "lua-cjson-2.1devel-1.rockspec";
-    # };
-
-    lua-cjson = stdenv.mkDerivation {
-      name = "lua-cjson";
-      src = "${distro_src}/extra/lua-cjson";
-
-      preConfigure = ''
-        makeFlags="PREFIX=$out LUA_LIBRARY=$out/lib/lua"
-      '';
-
-      buildInputs = [lua];
-
-      installPhase = ''
-        make install-extra $makeFlags
-      '';
-      meta.broken = true;
-    };
-
-    luafilesystem = buildLuaRocks {
-      name = "filesystem";
-      src = "${distro_src}/extra/luafilesystem";
-      luadeps = [lua-cjson];
-      rockspec = "rockspecs/luafilesystem-1.6.3-1.rockspec";
-    };
-
-    penlight = buildLuaRocks {
-      name = "penlight";
-      src = "${distro_src}/extra/penlight";
-      luadeps = [luafilesystem];
-    };
-
-    luaffifb = buildLuaRocks {
-      name = "luaffifb";
-      src = "${distro_src}/extra/luaffifb";
-      meta.broken = true;
-    };
-
-    sundown = buildLuaRocks rec {
-      name = "sundown";
-      src = "${distro_src}/pkg/sundown";
-      rockspec = "rocks/${name}-scm-1.rockspec";
-      meta.broken = true; # 2018-04-11
-    };
-
-    cwrap = buildLuaRocks rec {
-      name = "cwrap";
-      src = "${distro_src}/pkg/cwrap";
-      rockspec = "rocks/${name}-scm-1.rockspec";
-    };
-
-    paths = buildLuaRocks rec {
-      name = "paths";
-      src = "${distro_src}/pkg/paths";
-      buildInputs = [cmake];
-      rockspec = "rocks/${name}-scm-1.rockspec";
-    };
-
-    torch = buildLuaRocks rec {
-      name = "torch";
-      src = "${distro_src}/pkg/torch";
-      luadeps = [ paths cwrap ];
-      buildInputs = [ cmake ];
-      rockspec = "rocks/torch-scm-1.rockspec";
-      preBuild = ''
-        substituteInPlace ${rockspec} \
-          --replace '"sys >= 1.0"' ' '
-        export LUA_PATH="$src/?.lua;$LUA_PATH"
-      '';
-      meta = common_meta // {
-        description = "Torch is a machine-learning library";
-        longDescription = ''
-          Torch is the main package in [Torch7](http://torch.ch) where data
-          structures for multi-dimensional tensors and mathematical operations
-          over these are defined. Additionally, it provides many utilities for
-          accessing files, serializing objects of arbitrary types and other
-          useful utilities.
-        '';
-      };
-    };
-
-    dok = buildLuaRocks rec {
-      name = "dok";
-      src = "${distro_src}/pkg/dok";
-      luadeps = [sundown];
-      rockspec = "rocks/${name}-scm-1.rockspec";
-    };
-
-    sys = buildLuaRocks {
-      name = "sys";
-      luadeps = [torch];
-      buildInputs = [readline cmake];
-      src = "${distro_src}/pkg/sys";
-      rockspec = "sys-1.1-0.rockspec";
-      preBuild = ''
-        export Torch_DIR=${torch}/share/cmake/torch
-      '';
-    };
-
-    xlua = buildLuaRocks {
-      name = "xlua";
-      luadeps = [torch sys];
-      src = "${distro_src}/pkg/xlua";
-      rockspec = "xlua-1.0-0.rockspec";
-    };
-
-    nn = buildLuaRocks {
-      name = "nn";
-      luadeps = [torch luaffifb];
-      buildInputs = [cmake];
-      src = "${distro_src}/extra/nn";
-      rockspec = "rocks/nn-scm-1.rockspec";
-      preBuild = ''
-        export Torch_DIR=${torch}/share/cmake/torch
-      '';
-    };
-
-    graph = buildLuaRocks {
-      name = "graph";
-      luadeps = [ torch ];
-      buildInputs = [cmake];
-      src = "${distro_src}/extra/graph";
-      rockspec = "rocks/graph-scm-1.rockspec";
-      preBuild = ''
-        export Torch_DIR=${torch}/share/cmake/torch
-      '';
-    };
-
-    nngraph = buildLuaRocks {
-      name = "nngraph";
-      luadeps = [ torch nn graph ];
-      buildInputs = [cmake];
-      src = "${distro_src}/extra/nngraph";
-      preBuild = ''
-        export Torch_DIR=${torch}/share/cmake/torch
-      '';
-    };
-
-    image = buildLuaRocks {
-      name = "image";
-      luadeps = [ torch dok sys xlua ];
-      buildInputs = [cmake libjpeg libpng];
-      src = "${distro_src}/pkg/image";
-      rockspec = "image-1.1.alpha-0.rockspec";
-      preBuild = ''
-        export Torch_DIR=${torch}/share/cmake/torch
-      '';
-    };
-
-    optim = buildLuaRocks {
-      name = "optim";
-      luadeps = [ torch ];
-      buildInputs = [cmake];
-      src = "${distro_src}/pkg/optim";
-      rockspec = "optim-1.0.5-0.rockspec";
-      preBuild = ''
-        export Torch_DIR=${torch}/share/cmake/torch
-      '';
-    };
-
-    gnuplot = buildLuaRocks {
-      name = "gnuplot";
-      luadeps = [ torch paths ];
-      runtimeDeps = [ pkgs_gnuplot less ];
-      src = "${distro_src}/pkg/gnuplot";
-      rockspec = "rocks/gnuplot-scm-1.rockspec";
-    };
-
-    unsup = buildLuaRocks {
-      name = "unsup";
-      luadeps = [ torch xlua optim ];
-      buildInputs = [ cmake ];
-      src = fetchgit {
-        url = "https://github.com/koraykv/unsup";
-        rev = "1d4632e716dc3c82feecc7dd4b22549df442859f";
-        sha256 = "0npjq3y1cfmk026sdijcw3f766innrmb3qggnxsz62grczhfvgls";
-      };
-      rockspec = "unsup-0.1-0.rockspec";
-      preBuild = ''
-        export Torch_DIR=${torch}/share/cmake/torch
-      '';
-      meta.broken = true;
-    };
-
-    trepl = buildLuaRocks {
-      name = "trepl";
-      luadeps = [torch gnuplot paths penlight graph nn nngraph image gnuplot optim sys dok unsup];
-      runtimeDeps = [ ncurses readline ];
-      src = "${distro_src}/exe/trepl";
-      meta = common_meta // {
-        description = "A pure Lua REPL for Lua(JIT), with heavy support for Torch types.";
-      };
-    };
-
-    lbase64 = buildLuaRocks {
-      name = "lbase64";
-      src = fetchgit {
-        url = "https://github.com/LuaDist2/lbase64";
-        rev = "1e9e4f1e0bf589a0ed39f58acc185ec5e213d207";
-        sha256 = "1i1fpy9v6r4w3lrmz7bmf5ppq65925rv90gx39b3pykfmn0hcb9c";
-      };
-      meta.broken = true; # 2018-04-11
-    };
-
-    luuid = stdenv.mkDerivation {
-      name = "luuid";
-      src = fetchgit {
-        url = "https://github.com/LuaDist/luuid";
-        sha256 = "062gdf1rild11jg46vry93hcbb36b4527pf1dy7q9fv89f7m2nav";
-      };
-
-      preConfigure = ''
-        cmakeFlags="-DLUA_LIBRARY=${lua}/lib/lua/${lua.luaversion} -DINSTALL_CMOD=$out/lib/lua/${lua.luaversion} -DINSTALL_MOD=$out/lib/lua/${lua.luaversion}"
-      '';
-
-      buildInputs = [cmake libuuid lua];
-      meta = {
-        # FIXME: set the exact revision for src
-        broken = true;
-      };
-    };
-
-    # Doesn't work due to missing deps (according to luarocs).
-    itorch = buildLuaRocks {
-      name = "itorch";
-      luadeps = [torch gnuplot paths penlight graph nn nngraph image gnuplot
-                  optim sys dok lbase64 lua-cjson luuid];
-      buildInputs = [czmq openssl];
-      src = "${distro_src}/extra/iTorch";
-      meta = {
-        # FIXME: figure out whats wrong with deps
-        broken = true;
-      };
-    };
-
-
-  };
-
-in
-
-luapkgs
-
-
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 99633c168f2f..02dcca5065df 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -21901,12 +21901,6 @@ in
 
   topydo = callPackage ../applications/misc/topydo {};
 
-  torchPackages = recurseIntoAttrs ( callPackage ../applications/science/machine-learning/torch {
-    lua = luajit ;
-  } );
-
-  torch-repl = lib.setName "torch-repl" torchPackages.trepl;
-
   torchat = callPackage ../applications/networking/instant-messengers/torchat {
     inherit (pythonPackages) wrapPython wxPython;
   };