diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/dependency_collector.rb b/Library/Homebrew/dependency_collector.rb
index f83e7adf3e..ef3a712e96 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/dependency_collector.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/dependency_collector.rb
@@ -135,6 +135,10 @@ class DependencyCollector
     end
   end
 
+  def ant_dep(spec, tags)
+    Dependency.new(spec.to_s, tags)
+  end
+
   def resource_dep(spec, tags)
     tags << :build
     strategy = spec.download_strategy
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/extend/os/dependency_collector.rb b/Library/Homebrew/extend/os/dependency_collector.rb
index 83e9e2b61e..d295263f62 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/extend/os/dependency_collector.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/extend/os/dependency_collector.rb
@@ -2,6 +2,4 @@ require "dependency_collector"
 
 if OS.mac?
   require "extend/os/mac/dependency_collector"
-elsif OS.linux?
-  require "extend/os/linux/dependency_collector"
 end
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/extend/os/linux/dependency_collector.rb b/Library/Homebrew/extend/os/linux/dependency_collector.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 37758c307a..0000000000
--- a/Library/Homebrew/extend/os/linux/dependency_collector.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-class DependencyCollector
-  def ant_dep(spec, tags)
-    Dependency.new(spec.to_s, tags)
-  end
-end