lib/PublicInbox/Config.pm | 12 ------------
 lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm    |  2 +-

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Config.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Config.pm
index 35b24af4567eeb83ae1458b06eb078278970c89c..317d290a4c36954c0688609dac91694832526d25 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Config.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Config.pm
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ # Used throughout the project for reading configuration
 package PublicInbox::Config;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
-use base qw/Exporter/;
-our @EXPORT_OK = qw/try_cat/;
 require PublicInbox::Inbox;
 use PublicInbox::Spawn qw(popen_rd);
 use File::Path::Expand qw/expand_filename/;
@@ -99,16 +97,6 @@ 		}
 	}
 	close $fh or die "failed to close ($cmd) pipe: $?";
 	\%rv;
-}
-
-sub try_cat {
-	my ($path) = @_;
-	my $rv;
-	if (open(my $fh, '<', $path)) {
-		local $/;
-		$rv = <$fh>;
-	}
-	$rv;
 }
 
 sub _fill {
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm
index e8f1fbf0d49007fd2f1466b7511f23a9d5dc9bfa..ab3cd5d63e9794a71f2f08ff6c42efb157c3ef11 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ use 5.008;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 use Plack::Request;
-use PublicInbox::Config qw(try_cat);
+use PublicInbox::Config;
 use URI::Escape qw(uri_escape_utf8 uri_unescape);
 use constant SSOMA_URL => '//ssoma.public-inbox.org/';
 use constant PI_URL => '//public-inbox.org/';