diff --git a/bin/cdist-preprocess b/bin/cdist-preprocess
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--- a/bin/cdist-preprocess
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@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# 2010 Nico Schottelius (nico-cdist at schottelius.org)
-#
-# This file is part of cdist.
-#
-# cdist is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# cdist is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with cdist. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-#
-#
-# Setup environment for other scripts
-#
-
-. cdist-config
-
-[ $# -eq 1 ] || __cdist_usage "<target host>"
-
-set -e
-cdist-build-explorer | ssh "$1" > "${__cdist_tmp_file}"
-
-# FIXME: Warning: An untrusted/compromised client could in theory exploit us
-# And a filter function like grep '^__cdist_explore.*=".*"$'
-# is probably not effective!
-. "${__cdist_tmp_file}"
-
-
-# Create cconfig for the host - FIXME: replace with a recursive version
-# to allow type runners, overwrites and merges
-cdist-manifest-init