diff --git a/nixos/lib/make-options-doc/default.nix b/nixos/lib/make-options-doc/default.nix
index 5cfc24533c2..4ba8a9d95b3 100644
--- a/nixos/lib/make-options-doc/default.nix
+++ b/nixos/lib/make-options-doc/default.nix
@@ -178,17 +178,6 @@ in rec {
       --varlist-id ${lib.escapeShellArg variablelistId} \
       --id-prefix ${lib.escapeShellArg optionIdPrefix} \
       ${optionsJSON}/share/doc/nixos/options.json \
-      options.xml
-
-    if grep /nixpkgs/nixos/modules options.xml; then
-      echo "The manual appears to depend on the location of Nixpkgs, which is bad"
-      echo "since this prevents sharing via the NixOS channel.  This is typically"
-      echo "caused by an option default that refers to a relative path (see above"
-      echo "for hints about the offending path)."
-      exit 1
-    fi
-
-    ${pkgs.libxslt.bin}/bin/xsltproc \
-      -o "$out" ${./postprocess-option-descriptions.xsl} options.xml
+      "$out"
   '';
 }
diff --git a/nixos/lib/make-options-doc/postprocess-option-descriptions.xsl b/nixos/lib/make-options-doc/postprocess-option-descriptions.xsl
deleted file mode 100644
index 1201c7612c2..00000000000
--- a/nixos/lib/make-options-doc/postprocess-option-descriptions.xsl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,115 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-
-<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
-                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
-                xmlns:str="http://exslt.org/strings"
-                xmlns:exsl="http://exslt.org/common"
-                xmlns:db="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
-                xmlns:nixos="tag:nixos.org"
-                extension-element-prefixes="str exsl">
-  <xsl:output method='xml' encoding="UTF-8" />
-
-  <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
-    <xsl:copy>
-      <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" />
-    </xsl:copy>
-  </xsl:template>
-
-  <xsl:template name="break-up-description">
-    <xsl:param name="input" />
-    <xsl:param name="buffer" />
-
-    <!-- Every time we have two newlines following each other, we want to
-         break it into </para><para>. -->
-    <xsl:variable name="parbreak" select="'&#xa;&#xa;'" />
-
-    <!-- Similar to "(head:tail) = input" in Haskell. -->
-    <xsl:variable name="head" select="$input[1]" />
-    <xsl:variable name="tail" select="$input[position() &gt; 1]" />
-
-    <xsl:choose>
-      <xsl:when test="$head/self::text() and contains($head, $parbreak)">
-        <!-- If the haystack provided to str:split() directly starts or
-             ends with $parbreak, it doesn't generate a <token/> for that,
-             so we are doing this here. -->
-        <xsl:variable name="splitted-raw">
-          <xsl:if test="starts-with($head, $parbreak)"><token /></xsl:if>
-          <xsl:for-each select="str:split($head, $parbreak)">
-            <token><xsl:value-of select="node()" /></token>
-          </xsl:for-each>
-          <!-- Something like ends-with($head, $parbreak), but there is
-               no ends-with() in XSLT, so we need to use substring(). -->
-          <xsl:if test="
-            substring($head, string-length($head) -
-                             string-length($parbreak) + 1) = $parbreak
-          "><token /></xsl:if>
-        </xsl:variable>
-        <xsl:variable name="splitted"
-                      select="exsl:node-set($splitted-raw)/token" />
-        <!-- The buffer we had so far didn't contain any text nodes that
-             contain a $parbreak, so we can put the buffer along with the
-             first token of $splitted into a para element. -->
-        <para xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
-          <xsl:apply-templates select="exsl:node-set($buffer)" />
-          <xsl:apply-templates select="$splitted[1]/node()" />
-        </para>
-        <!-- We have already emitted the first splitted result, so the
-             last result is going to be set as the new $buffer later
-             because its contents may not be directly followed up by a
-             $parbreak. -->
-        <xsl:for-each select="$splitted[position() &gt; 1
-                              and position() &lt; last()]">
-          <para xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
-            <xsl:apply-templates select="node()" />
-          </para>
-        </xsl:for-each>
-        <xsl:call-template name="break-up-description">
-          <xsl:with-param name="input" select="$tail" />
-          <xsl:with-param name="buffer" select="$splitted[last()]/node()" />
-        </xsl:call-template>
-      </xsl:when>
-      <!-- Either non-text node or one without $parbreak, which we just
-           want to buffer and continue recursing. -->
-      <xsl:when test="$input">
-        <xsl:call-template name="break-up-description">
-          <xsl:with-param name="input" select="$tail" />
-          <!-- This essentially appends $head to $buffer. -->
-          <xsl:with-param name="buffer">
-            <xsl:if test="$buffer">
-              <xsl:for-each select="exsl:node-set($buffer)">
-                <xsl:apply-templates select="." />
-              </xsl:for-each>
-            </xsl:if>
-            <xsl:apply-templates select="$head" />
-          </xsl:with-param>
-        </xsl:call-template>
-      </xsl:when>
-      <!-- No more $input, just put the remaining $buffer in a para. -->
-      <xsl:otherwise>
-        <para xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
-          <xsl:apply-templates select="exsl:node-set($buffer)" />
-        </para>
-      </xsl:otherwise>
-    </xsl:choose>
-  </xsl:template>
-
-  <xsl:template match="nixos:option-description">
-    <xsl:choose>
-      <!--
-        Only process nodes that are comprised of a single <para/> element,
-        because if that's not the case the description already contains
-        </para><para> in between and we need no further processing.
-      -->
-      <xsl:when test="count(db:para) > 1">
-        <xsl:apply-templates select="node()" />
-      </xsl:when>
-      <xsl:otherwise>
-        <xsl:call-template name="break-up-description">
-          <xsl:with-param name="input"
-                          select="exsl:node-set(db:para/node())" />
-        </xsl:call-template>
-      </xsl:otherwise>
-    </xsl:choose>
-  </xsl:template>
-
-</xsl:stylesheet>