diff --git a/include/rpm/rpmlog.h b/include/rpm/rpmlog.h
index 0e26b884cd..fed937581e 100644
--- a/include/rpm/rpmlog.h
+++ b/include/rpm/rpmlog.h
@@ -18,13 +18,8 @@ extern "C" {
 
 /** \ingroup rpmlog
  * RPM Log levels.
- * priorities/facilities are encoded into a single 32-bit quantity, where the
- * bottom 3 bits are the priority (0-7) and the top 28 bits are the facility
- * (0-big number).  Both the priorities and the facilities map roughly
- * one-to-one to strings in the syslogd(8) source code.  This mapping is
- * included in this file.
- *
- * priorities (these are ordered)
+ * Priorities are encoded into bottom 3 bits of a single 32 bit quantity.
+ * The top 28 bits are currently unused.
  */
 typedef enum rpmlogLvl_e {
     RPMLOG_EMERG	= 0,	/*!< system is unusable */
@@ -43,41 +38,6 @@ typedef enum rpmlogLvl_e {
 #define	RPMLOG_MAKEPRI(fac, pri)	((((unsigned)(fac)) << 3) | (pri))
 #define	RPMLOG_NPRIS	(RPMLOG_DEBUG + 1)
 
-/** \ingroup rpmlog
- * facility codes
- */
-typedef	enum rpmlogFac_e {
-    RPMLOG_KERN		= (0<<3),	/*!< kernel messages */
-    RPMLOG_USER		= (1<<3),	/*!< random user-level messages */
-    RPMLOG_MAIL		= (2<<3),	/*!< mail system */
-    RPMLOG_DAEMON	= (3<<3),	/*!< system daemons */
-    RPMLOG_AUTH		= (4<<3),	/*!< security/authorization messages */
-    RPMLOG_SYSLOG	= (5<<3),	/*!< messages generated internally by syslogd */
-    RPMLOG_LPR		= (6<<3),	/*!< line printer subsystem */
-    RPMLOG_NEWS		= (7<<3),	/*!< network news subsystem */
-    RPMLOG_UUCP		= (8<<3),	/*!< UUCP subsystem */
-    RPMLOG_CRON		= (9<<3),	/*!< clock daemon */
-    RPMLOG_AUTHPRIV	= (10<<3),	/*!< security/authorization messages (private) */
-    RPMLOG_FTP		= (11<<3),	/*!< ftp daemon */
-
-	/* other codes through 15 reserved for system use */
-    RPMLOG_LOCAL0	= (16<<3),	/*!< reserved for local use */
-    RPMLOG_LOCAL1	= (17<<3),	/*!< reserved for local use */
-    RPMLOG_LOCAL2	= (18<<3),	/*!< reserved for local use */
-    RPMLOG_LOCAL3	= (19<<3),	/*!< reserved for local use */
-    RPMLOG_LOCAL4	= (20<<3),	/*!< reserved for local use */
-    RPMLOG_LOCAL5	= (21<<3),	/*!< reserved for local use */
-    RPMLOG_LOCAL6	= (22<<3),	/*!< reserved for local use */
-    RPMLOG_LOCAL7	= (23<<3),	/*!< reserved for local use */
-
-#define	RPMLOG_NFACILITIES 24	/*!< current number of facilities */
-    RPMLOG_ERRMSG	= (((unsigned)(RPMLOG_NFACILITIES+0))<<3)
-} rpmlogFac;
-
-#define	RPMLOG_FACMASK	0x03f8	/*!< mask to extract facility part */
-#define	RPMLOG_FAC(p)	(((p) & RPMLOG_FACMASK) >> 3)
-
-
 /*
  * arguments to setlogmask.
  */
diff --git a/rpmio/rpmlog.c b/rpmio/rpmlog.c
index cf7b93731c..2bb5ab0e34 100644
--- a/rpmio/rpmlog.c
+++ b/rpmio/rpmlog.c
@@ -163,10 +163,6 @@ void rpmlogOpen (const char *ident, int option,
 {
 }
 
-#ifdef NOTYET
-static unsigned rpmlogFacility = RPMLOG_USER;
-#endif
-
 int rpmlogSetMask (int mask)
 {
     rpmlogCtx ctx = rpmlogCtxAcquire(mask ? 1 : 0);