diff --git a/base/vim/centos/build_srpm.data b/base/vim/centos/build_srpm.data
deleted file mode 100644
index 2ec7ea02f..000000000
--- a/base/vim/centos/build_srpm.data
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-COPY_LIST="files/*"
-TIS_PATCH_VER=1
diff --git a/base/vim/centos/meta_patches/0001-Update-package-versioning-for-TIS-format.patch b/base/vim/centos/meta_patches/0001-Update-package-versioning-for-TIS-format.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 848bd6e93..000000000
--- a/base/vim/centos/meta_patches/0001-Update-package-versioning-for-TIS-format.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-From 852f734a938c881248d48feb9eb9e0f80d27af55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Scott Little <scott.little@windriver.com>
-Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 15:54:16 -0400
-Subject: [PATCH 1/1] WRS: 0001-Update-package-versioning-for-TIS-format.patch
-
-Conflicts:
-	SPECS/vim.spec
----
- SPECS/vim.spec | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/SPECS/vim.spec b/SPECS/vim.spec
-index 3cc96c2..be1a56c 100644
---- a/SPECS/vim.spec
-+++ b/SPECS/vim.spec
-@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Summary: The VIM editor
- URL:     http://www.vim.org/
- Name: vim
- Version: %{baseversion}.%{patchlevel}
--Release: 2%{?dist}
-+Release: 2.el7%{?_tis_dist}.%{tis_patch_ver}
- License: Vim
- Group: Applications/Editors
- Source0: ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-%{baseversion}.tar.bz2
--- 
-1.9.1
-
diff --git a/base/vim/centos/meta_patches/PATCH_ORDER b/base/vim/centos/meta_patches/PATCH_ORDER
deleted file mode 100644
index 91f9a80ea..000000000
--- a/base/vim/centos/meta_patches/PATCH_ORDER
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-0001-Update-package-versioning-for-TIS-format.patch
diff --git a/base/vim/centos/srpm_path b/base/vim/centos/srpm_path
deleted file mode 100644
index 2749149ae..000000000
--- a/base/vim/centos/srpm_path
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-mirror:Source/vim-7.4.160-2.el7.src.rpm
diff --git a/base/vim/files/vimrc b/base/vim/files/vimrc
deleted file mode 100644
index aa57c277c..000000000
--- a/base/vim/files/vimrc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,92 +0,0 @@
-" An example for a vimrc file.
-"
-" Maintainer:	Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
-" Last change:	2008 Jul 02
-"
-" To use it, copy it to
-"     for Unix and OS/2:  ~/.vimrc
-"	      for Amiga:  s:.vimrc
-"  for MS-DOS and Win32:  $VIM\_vimrc
-"	    for OpenVMS:  sys$login:.vimrc
-
-" When started as "evim", evim.vim will already have done these settings.
-if v:progname =~? "evim"
-  finish
-endif
-
-" Use Vim settings, rather then Vi settings (much better!).
-" This must be first, because it changes other options as a side effect.
-set nocompatible
-
-" allow backspacing over everything in insert mode
-set backspace=indent,eol,start
-
-set nobackup		" do not keep a backup file, use versions instead
-set history=50		" keep 50 lines of command line history
-set ruler		" show the cursor position all the time
-set showcmd		" display incomplete commands
-set incsearch		" do incremental searching
-
-" For Win32 GUI: remove 't' flag from 'guioptions': no tearoff menu entries
-" let &guioptions = substitute(&guioptions, "t", "", "g")
-
-" Don't use Ex mode, use Q for formatting
-map Q gq
-
-" CTRL-U in insert mode deletes a lot.  Use CTRL-G u to first break undo,
-" so that you can undo CTRL-U after inserting a line break.
-inoremap <C-U> <C-G>u<C-U>
-
-" In many terminal emulators the mouse works just fine, thus enable it.
-if has('mouse')
-  set mouse-=a
-endif
-
-" Switch syntax highlighting on, when the terminal has colors
-" Also switch on highlighting the last used search pattern.
-"if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running")
-"  syntax on
-"  set hlsearch
-"endif
-
-" Only do this part when compiled with support for autocommands.
-if has("autocmd")
-
-  " Enable file type detection.
-  " Use the default filetype settings, so that mail gets 'tw' set to 72,
-  " 'cindent' is on in C files, etc.
-  " Also load indent files, to automatically do language-dependent indenting.
-  filetype plugin indent off
-
-  " Put these in an autocmd group, so that we can delete them easily.
-  augroup vimrcEx
-  au!
-
-  " For all text files set 'textwidth' to 78 characters.
-  autocmd FileType text setlocal textwidth=78
-
-  " When editing a file, always jump to the last known cursor position.
-  " Don't do it when the position is invalid or when inside an event handler
-  " (happens when dropping a file on gvim).
-  " Also don't do it when the mark is in the first line, that is the default
-  " position when opening a file.
-  autocmd BufReadPost *
-    \ if line("'\"") > 1 && line("'\"") <= line("$") |
-    \   exe "normal! g`\"" |
-    \ endif
-
-  augroup END
-
-else
-
-  set autoindent		" always set autoindenting on
-
-endif " has("autocmd")
-
-" Convenient command to see the difference between the current buffer and the
-" file it was loaded from, thus the changes you made.
-" Only define it when not defined already.
-if !exists(":DiffOrig")
-  command DiffOrig vert new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis
-		  \ | wincmd p | diffthis
-endif
diff --git a/centos_pkg_dirs b/centos_pkg_dirs
index 44faedf58..73f0717d5 100644
--- a/centos_pkg_dirs
+++ b/centos_pkg_dirs
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ config/facter
 virt/qemu
 filesystem/nfscheck
 utilities/update-motd
-base/vim
 python/python-2.7.5
 python/python-django
 python/python-setuptools