diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Kernel.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Kernel.php
index 002c34b99d..4ba29fcbfa 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Kernel.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Kernel.php
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ use Symfony\Component\Config\Loader\LoaderResolver;
 use Symfony\Component\Config\Loader\DelegatingLoader;
 use Symfony\Component\Config\ConfigCache;
 use Symfony\Component\ClassLoader\ClassCollectionLoader;
-use Symfony\Component\Filesystem\Filesystem;
 
 /**
  * The Kernel is the heart of the Symfony system.
@@ -717,43 +716,9 @@ abstract class Kernel implements KernelInterface, TerminableInterface
             $content = static::stripComments($content);
         }
 
-        $content = $this->removeAbsolutePathsFromContainer($content);
-
         $cache->write($content, $container->getResources());
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Converts absolute paths to relative ones in the dumped container.
-     */
-    private function removeAbsolutePathsFromContainer($content)
-    {
-        if (!class_exists('Symfony\Component\Filesystem\Filesystem')) {
-            return $content;
-        }
-
-        // find the "real" root dir (by finding the composer.json file)
-        $rootDir = $this->getRootDir();
-        $previous = $rootDir;
-        while (!file_exists($rootDir.'/composer.json')) {
-            if ($previous === $rootDir = realpath($rootDir.'/..')) {
-                // unable to detect the project root, give up
-                return $content;
-            }
-
-            $previous = $rootDir;
-        }
-
-        $rootDir = rtrim($rootDir, '/');
-        $cacheDir = $this->getCacheDir();
-        $filesystem = new Filesystem();
-
-        return preg_replace_callback("{'([^']*)(".preg_quote($rootDir)."[^']*)'}", function ($match) use ($filesystem, $cacheDir) {
-            $prefix = isset($match[1]) && $match[1] ? "'$match[1]'.__DIR__.'/" : "__DIR__.'/";
-
-            return $prefix.rtrim($filesystem->makePathRelative($match[2], $cacheDir), '/')."'";
-        }, $content);
-    }
-
     /**
      * Returns a loader for the container.
      *
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Fixtures/DumpedContainers/app/cache/dev/withAbsolutePaths.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Fixtures/DumpedContainers/app/cache/dev/withAbsolutePaths.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 54e0dedc4b..0000000000
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Fixtures/DumpedContainers/app/cache/dev/withAbsolutePaths.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-'ROOT_DIR/app/cache/dev/foo'
-'ROOT_DIR/app/cache/foo'
-'ROOT_DIR/foo/bar.php'
-
-'/some/where/else/foo'
-
-'file:ROOT_DIR/app/cache/dev/profiler'
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Fixtures/DumpedContainers/app/cache/dev/withoutAbsolutePaths.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Fixtures/DumpedContainers/app/cache/dev/withoutAbsolutePaths.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 09ce8b5683..0000000000
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Fixtures/DumpedContainers/app/cache/dev/withoutAbsolutePaths.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-__DIR__.'/foo'
-__DIR__.'/../foo'
-__DIR__.'/../../../foo/bar.php'
-
-'/some/where/else/foo'
-
-'file:'.__DIR__.'/profiler'
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Fixtures/DumpedContainers/composer.json b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Fixtures/DumpedContainers/composer.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 0967ef424b..0000000000
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Fixtures/DumpedContainers/composer.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-{}
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Fixtures/KernelForTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Fixtures/KernelForTest.php
index 3eb765d2b5..21583ad40a 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Fixtures/KernelForTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Fixtures/KernelForTest.php
@@ -16,11 +16,6 @@ use Symfony\Component\Config\Loader\LoaderInterface;
 
 class KernelForTest extends Kernel
 {
-    public function setRootDir($dir)
-    {
-        $this->rootDir = $dir;
-    }
-
     public function getBundleMap()
     {
         return $this->bundleMap;
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/KernelTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/KernelTest.php
index 95e8942d08..a19bc32679 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/KernelTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/KernelTest.php
@@ -824,34 +824,6 @@ EOF;
         $kernel->terminate(Request::create('/'), new Response());
     }
 
-    public function testRemoveAbsolutePathsFromContainer()
-    {
-        $kernel = new KernelForTest('dev', true);
-        $kernel->setRootDir($symfonyRootDir = __DIR__.'/Fixtures/DumpedContainers/app');
-
-        $content = file_get_contents($symfonyRootDir.'/cache/dev/withAbsolutePaths.php');
-        $content = str_replace('ROOT_DIR', __DIR__.'/Fixtures/DumpedContainers', $content);
-
-        $m = new \ReflectionMethod($kernel, 'removeAbsolutePathsFromContainer');
-        $m->setAccessible(true);
-        $content = $m->invoke($kernel, $content);
-        $this->assertEquals(file_get_contents($symfonyRootDir.'/cache/dev/withoutAbsolutePaths.php'), $content);
-    }
-
-    public function testRemoveAbsolutePathsFromContainerGiveUpWhenComposerJsonPathNotGuessable()
-    {
-        $kernel = new KernelForTest('dev', true);
-        $kernel->setRootDir($symfonyRootDir = sys_get_temp_dir());
-
-        $content = file_get_contents(__DIR__.'/Fixtures/DumpedContainers/app/cache/dev/withAbsolutePaths.php');
-        $content = str_replace('ROOT_DIR', __DIR__.'/Fixtures/DumpedContainers', $content);
-
-        $m = new \ReflectionMethod($kernel, 'removeAbsolutePathsFromContainer');
-        $m->setAccessible(true);
-        $newContent = $m->invoke($kernel, $content);
-        $this->assertEquals($newContent, $content);
-    }
-
     protected function getBundle($dir = null, $parent = null, $className = null, $bundleName = null)
     {
         $bundle = $this
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/composer.json b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/composer.json
index 9b52591d9f..af659da904 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/composer.json
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/composer.json
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
         "symfony/console": "~2.2",
         "symfony/dependency-injection": "~2.0",
         "symfony/finder": "~2.0",
-        "symfony/filesystem": "~2.4",
         "symfony/process": "~2.0",
         "symfony/routing": "~2.2",
         "symfony/stopwatch": "~2.2",
@@ -41,8 +40,7 @@
         "symfony/config": "",
         "symfony/console": "",
         "symfony/dependency-injection": "",
-        "symfony/finder": "",
-        "symfony/filesystem": ""
+        "symfony/finder": ""
     },
     "autoload": {
         "psr-0": { "Symfony\\Component\\HttpKernel\\": "" }