diff --git a/tools/perf/util/Build b/tools/perf/util/Build
index 0513dd525d87637d94be1bbba83d3ff566123067..62392ab234f8e21e6ca80995a3b16c9e1c8c9893 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/Build
+++ b/tools/perf/util/Build
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ libperf-y += config.o
 libperf-y += ctype.o
 libperf-y += db-export.o
 libperf-y += env.o
-libperf-y += environment.o
 libperf-y += event.o
 libperf-y += evlist.o
 libperf-y += evsel.o
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cache.h b/tools/perf/util/cache.h
index c861373aaed33dafd233a7bf5eebefa4dfd9874b..4c2b76499dd59d317ce8eaec94167e362ebc71a2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/cache.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/cache.h
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ extern const char *perf_config_dirname(const char *, const char *);
 /* pager.c */
 extern void setup_pager(void);
 extern int pager_in_use(void);
-extern int pager_use_color;
 
 char *alias_lookup(const char *alias);
 int split_cmdline(char *cmdline, const char ***argv);
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/color.c b/tools/perf/util/color.c
index 9b9565416f9037fb59e7e4382b58b34e4857a136..e5fb88bab9e1c416a3c53fe5036f8eb57f64a55d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/color.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/color.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ int perf_config_colorbool(const char *var, const char *value, int stdout_is_tty)
  auto_color:
 	if (stdout_is_tty < 0)
 		stdout_is_tty = isatty(1);
-	if (stdout_is_tty || (pager_in_use() && pager_use_color)) {
+	if (stdout_is_tty || pager_in_use()) {
 		char *term = getenv("TERM");
 		if (term && strcmp(term, "dumb"))
 			return 1;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/environment.c b/tools/perf/util/environment.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 7405123692f14919bc1928c67f4819ef3503e1ba..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/tools/perf/util/environment.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * We put all the perf config variables in this same object
- * file, so that programs can link against the config parser
- * without having to link against all the rest of perf.
- */
-#include "cache.h"
-
-int pager_use_color = 1;