diff --git a/lib/rubygems/indexer.rb b/lib/rubygems/indexer.rb
index 75bd824c9e..262836a7b3 100644
--- a/lib/rubygems/indexer.rb
+++ b/lib/rubygems/indexer.rb
@@ -4,14 +4,6 @@ require 'rubygems/package'
 require 'time'
 require 'tmpdir'
 
-rescue_exceptions = [LoadError]
-begin
-  require 'bundler/errors'
-rescue LoadError # this rubygems + old ruby
-else # this rubygems + ruby trunk with bundler
-  rescue_exceptions << Bundler::GemfileNotFound
-end
-
 ##
 # Top level class for building the gem repository index.