diff --git a/share/mk/bsd.dep.mk b/share/mk/bsd.dep.mk
index ff954ecfeac8..cdcadb034b44 100644
--- a/share/mk/bsd.dep.mk
+++ b/share/mk/bsd.dep.mk
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
 #
 # +++ variables +++
 #
-# CLEANDEPFILES Additional files to clean when doing cleandepend
-#
 # CTAGS		A tags file generation program [gtags]
 #
 # CTAGSFLAGS	Options for ctags(1) [not set]
@@ -184,9 +182,6 @@ cleandepend:
 .if defined(HTML)
 	rm -rf HTML
 .endif
-.if defined(CLEANDEPFILES)
-	rm -f ${CLEANDEPFILES}
-.endif
 .endif
 .endif
 .endif
diff --git a/usr.bin/kdump/Makefile b/usr.bin/kdump/Makefile
index c0c74e3dbfe2..2ca8561c4eb9 100644
--- a/usr.bin/kdump/Makefile
+++ b/usr.bin/kdump/Makefile
@@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ PROG=		kdump
 SRCS=		kdump.c ioctl.c kdump_subr.c subr.c
 CFLAGS+=	-I${.CURDIR}/../ktrace -I${.CURDIR} -I${.CURDIR}/../..
 
-CLEANDEPFILES=	ioctl.c kdump_subr.c
-CLEANFILES=	${CLEANDEPFILES}
+CLEANFILES=	ioctl.c kdump_subr.c
 
 ioctl.c: mkioctls
 	sh ${.CURDIR}/mkioctls ${DESTDIR}/usr/include > ${.TARGET}
diff --git a/usr.bin/truss/Makefile b/usr.bin/truss/Makefile
index 35ec96953588..d1ae0ace15db 100644
--- a/usr.bin/truss/Makefile
+++ b/usr.bin/truss/Makefile
@@ -9,9 +9,8 @@ SRCS+=	i386-linux.c linux_syscalls.h
 .endif
 
 CFLAGS+= -I${.CURDIR} -I.
-CLEANDEPFILES=i386l-syscalls.master syscalls.master linux_syscalls.h \
+CLEANFILES=i386l-syscalls.master syscalls.master linux_syscalls.h \
 	syscalls.h ioctl.c
-CLEANFILES+=${CLEANDEPFILES}
 
 .SUFFIXES: .master