diff --git a/var/spack/packages/arpack/package.py.save b/var/spack/packages/arpack/package.py.save
deleted file mode 100644
index fe4f7999c6f619104ee85a5974a7659a1721f987..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/var/spack/packages/arpack/package.py.save
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-from spack import *
-
-class Arpack(Package):
-    """ARPACK is a collection of Fortran77 subroutines designed to solve large scale eigenvalue problems."""
-
-    homepage = "http://www.caam.rice.edu/software/ARPACK/"
-    url      = "http://www.caam.rice.edu/software/ARPACK/SRC/arpack96.tar.gz"
-
-    version('96', 'fffaa970198b285676f4156cebc8626e')
-
-    depends_on("blas")
-    depends_on("lapack")
-
-    def install(self, spec, prefix):
-        
diff --git a/var/spack/packages/hypre/package.py.save b/var/spack/packages/hypre/package.py.save
deleted file mode 100644
index 532a1a3c5f0eb855504e37f41bc30d722c8e2de8..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/var/spack/packages/hypre/package.py.save
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-from spack import *
-
-class Hypre(Package):
-    """Hypre is a library of high performance preconditioners that features parallel multigrid 
-    methods for both structured and unstructured grid problems."""
-
-    homepage = "https://computation.llnl.gov/project/linear_solvers/software.php"
-    url      = "https://computation.llnl.gov/project/linear_solvers/download/hypre-2.10.0b.tar.gz"
-
-    version('2.10.0b', '768be38793a35bb5d055905b271f5b8e')
-
-    depends_on("openmpi")
-    depends_on("blas")
-    depends_on("lapack")
-
-    def install(self, spec, prefix):
-        lapack_dir = spec['lapack'].prefix        
-        configure(
-            "--prefix=%s" % prefix, 
-            "--with-blas-libs=blas", 
-            "--with-blas-lib-dirs=%s/lib" % spec['blas'].prefix, 
-            "--with-lapack-libs=lapack blas", 
-            "--with-lapack-lib-dirs=%s/lib" % lapack_dir)
-        
-        make()
-        make("install")