diff --git a/math/atlas-devel/pkg-descr b/math/atlas-devel/pkg-descr
index ddb171ecf5b3..c59c0267a409 100644
--- a/math/atlas-devel/pkg-descr
+++ b/math/atlas-devel/pkg-descr
@@ -5,11 +5,6 @@ in order to provide portable performance.
 At present, it provides C and Fortran77 interfaces to a
 portably efficient BLAS implementation, as well as a few routines from LAPACK.
 
-PLEASE REBUILD YOUR KERNEL WITH 
-options         CPU_ENABLE_SSE
-TO ENABLE SSE1/SSE2 SUPPORT BEFORE MAKING ATLAS!
-IT SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVES PERFORMANCE. 
-
 If you use blas, you can simply change flags when linking,
 from -lblas to -lf77blas -latlas (order is important).
 
diff --git a/math/atlas/pkg-descr b/math/atlas/pkg-descr
index ddb171ecf5b3..c59c0267a409 100644
--- a/math/atlas/pkg-descr
+++ b/math/atlas/pkg-descr
@@ -5,11 +5,6 @@ in order to provide portable performance.
 At present, it provides C and Fortran77 interfaces to a
 portably efficient BLAS implementation, as well as a few routines from LAPACK.
 
-PLEASE REBUILD YOUR KERNEL WITH 
-options         CPU_ENABLE_SSE
-TO ENABLE SSE1/SSE2 SUPPORT BEFORE MAKING ATLAS!
-IT SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVES PERFORMANCE. 
-
 If you use blas, you can simply change flags when linking,
 from -lblas to -lf77blas -latlas (order is important).
 
diff --git a/math/atlas/pkg-message b/math/atlas/pkg-message
deleted file mode 100644
index 3ec289495210..000000000000
--- a/math/atlas/pkg-message
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
--------------------------------------------------
-This software determines and detects
-appropreate parameters and hardware setting
-(e.g., SSE/SSE2/3DNow etc) while compilation.
-
-The author of this port *strongly* urge you to
-make atlas by yourself.
--------------------------------------------------