diff --git a/pym/portage/const.py b/pym/portage/const.py
index bebb922..5d6aabc 100644
--- a/pym/portage/const.py
+++ b/pym/portage/const.py
@@ -165,7 +165,6 @@
 _ENABLE_PRESERVE_LIBS   = True
 _ENABLE_REPO_NAME_WARN  = True
 _ENABLE_SET_CONFIG      = True
-_ENABLE_XATTR           = True
 
 
 # The definitions above will differ between branches, so it's useful to have
@@ -178,8 +177,3 @@
 
 if not _ENABLE_SET_CONFIG:
 	WORLD_SETS_FILE = '/dev/null'
-
-if not _ENABLE_XATTR:
-	SUPPORTED_FEATURES = set(SUPPORTED_FEATURES)
-	SUPPORTED_FEATURES.remove("xattr")
-	SUPPORTED_FEATURES = frozenset(SUPPORTED_FEATURES)
diff --git a/pym/portage/util/movefile.py b/pym/portage/util/movefile.py
index 9834c5a..476f8e7 100644
--- a/pym/portage/util/movefile.py
+++ b/pym/portage/util/movefile.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 from portage import bsd_chflags, _encodings, _os_overrides, _selinux, \
 	_unicode_decode, _unicode_encode, _unicode_func_wrapper,\
 	_unicode_module_wrapper
-from portage.const import MOVE_BINARY, _ENABLE_XATTR
+from portage.const import MOVE_BINARY
 from portage.exception import OperationNotSupported
 from portage.localization import _
 from portage.process import spawn
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
 		mysettings = portage.settings
 
 	src_bytes = _unicode_encode(src, encoding=encoding, errors='strict')
-	xattr_enabled = _ENABLE_XATTR and "xattr" in mysettings.features
+	xattr_enabled = "xattr" in mysettings.features
 	selinux_enabled = mysettings.selinux_enabled()
 	if selinux_enabled:
 		selinux = _unicode_module_wrapper(_selinux, encoding=encoding)