diff --git a/on-demand-linkcollector.patch b/on-demand-linkcollector.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index d396d51..0000000
--- a/on-demand-linkcollector.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-Index: pip-24.2/src/pip/_internal/cli/req_command.py
-===================================================================
---- pip-24.2.orig/src/pip/_internal/cli/req_command.py
-+++ pip-24.2/src/pip/_internal/cli/req_command.py
-@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ from pip._internal.cli import cmdoptions
- from pip._internal.cli.index_command import IndexGroupCommand
- from pip._internal.cli.index_command import SessionCommandMixin as SessionCommandMixin
- from pip._internal.exceptions import CommandError, PreviousBuildDirError
--from pip._internal.index.collector import LinkCollector
- from pip._internal.index.package_finder import PackageFinder
- from pip._internal.models.selection_prefs import SelectionPreferences
- from pip._internal.models.target_python import TargetPython
-@@ -313,6 +312,7 @@ class RequirementCommand(IndexGroupComma
-         :param ignore_requires_python: Whether to ignore incompatible
-             "Requires-Python" values in links. Defaults to False.
-         """
-+        from pip._internal.index.collector import LinkCollector
-         link_collector = LinkCollector.create(session, options=options)
-         selection_prefs = SelectionPreferences(
-             allow_yanked=True,
diff --git a/python-pip.changes b/python-pip.changes
index 89194c4..dbae277 100644
--- a/python-pip.changes
+++ b/python-pip.changes
@@ -97,9 +97,6 @@ Mon Aug 12 16:49:06 UTC 2024 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
     --ignore-conflicts.
   * Fix finding hardlink targets in tar files with an ignored
     top-level directory.
-- add on-demand-linkcollector.patch to delay loading the
-  linkcollector in build environments which have no network
-  and no useful set of certificates
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Jun 30 18:45:16 UTC 2024 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
diff --git a/python-pip.spec b/python-pip.spec
index 0007f78..a1f5f58 100644
--- a/python-pip.spec
+++ b/python-pip.spec
@@ -46,8 +46,6 @@ Patch0:         pip-shipped-requests-cabundle.patch
 # PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM distutils-reproducible-compile.patch gh#python/cpython#8057 mcepl@suse.com
 # To get reproducible builds, byte_compile() of distutils.util now sorts filenames.
 Patch1:         distutils-reproducible-compile.patch
-# PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE: delay loading requests and ca-certificates to avoid build cycles
-Patch2:         on-demand-linkcollector.patch
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module base >= 3.7}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools >= 40.8.0}
 # The rpm python-wheel build is bootstrap friendly since 0.42