diff --git a/lib/catalyst.sh b/lib/catalyst.sh
index 334b39410c..7b514bd745 100644
--- a/lib/catalyst.sh
+++ b/lib/catalyst.sh
@@ -41,8 +41,6 @@ DEFINE_string profile "${DEFAULT_PROFILE}" \
     "Portage profile, may be prefixed with repo:"
 DEFINE_boolean rebuild ${FLAGS_FALSE} \
     "Rebuild and overwrite stages that already exist."
-DEFINE_integer make_jobs ${NUM_JOBS} "Tune make's concurrency."
-DEFINE_integer emerge_jobs ${NUM_JOBS} "Tune emerge's concurrency."
 DEFINE_boolean debug ${FLAGS_FALSE} "Enable verbose output from catalyst."
 
 #####################
@@ -73,9 +71,9 @@ EOF
 }
 
 catalystrc() {
-cat "${SCRIPTS_DIR}/lib/catalystrc"
-echo "export MAKEOPTS=-j$FLAGS_make_jobs"
-echo "export EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--jobs=$FLAGS_emerge_jobs"
+echo "export MAKEOPTS='--jobs=${NUM_JOBS} --load-average=${NUM_JOBS}'"
+echo "export EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--jobs=${NUM_JOBS}"
+echo "export FEATURES='parallel-install -ebuild-locks'"
 }
 
 # Common values for all stage spec files
diff --git a/lib/catalystrc b/lib/catalystrc
deleted file mode 100644
index 06f12c11cd..0000000000
--- a/lib/catalystrc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-# setup some configs catalyst doesn't handle
-# i.e: update locale.gen to speed up builds
-maybe_append() {
-    [[ -f "$1" && ! -w "$1" ]] && return
-    if ! grep -q "^$2" "$1"; then
-        echo "$2" >> "$1"
-    fi
-}
-
-fixup_rootfs() {
-    mkdir -p "$1/etc" 2>/dev/null || return
-    maybe_append "$1/etc/locale.gen" "en_US ISO-8859-1"
-    maybe_append "$1/etc/locale.gen" "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8"
-}
-
-# Fix both / and $ROOT (if it exists)
-fixup_rootfs
-[[ "${ROOT:-/}" != / ]] && fixup_rootfs "$ROOT"
-unset fixup_rootfs maybe_append