diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 06b6400be4523665c4c994f11443c4eaf7299a65..ed6c3e2b598c6fb9d57349fd519b507a01da92b4 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -67,12 +67,6 @@ install_vendor:
 	go get github.com/Masterminds/glide
 	glide install
 
-# hell runs utility tool hell to selectively update glide dependencies
-.PHONY: hell
-hell:
-	go build -o ${REPO}/target/hell ./util/hell/cmd/hell/main.go
-	./target/hell $(filter-out $@,$(MAKECMDGOALS))
-
 # Dumps Solidity interface contracts for SNatives
 .PHONY: snatives
 snatives:
diff --git a/glide.lock b/glide.lock
index a53f4588b335dad4e7f2f03a87a25404f4f4456b..06751273920eb8330b61c0977473165a13f40648 100644
--- a/glide.lock
+++ b/glide.lock
@@ -82,8 +82,6 @@ imports:
   version: c265cfa48dda6474e208715ca93e987829f572f8
 - name: github.com/manucorporat/sse
   version: ee05b128a739a0fb76c7ebd3ae4810c1de808d6d
-- name: github.com/Masterminds/glide
-  version: 869001d1571ce5f03fd0078bff188b9d3f272807
 - name: github.com/mattn/go-colorable
   version: ded68f7a9561c023e790de24279db7ebf473ea80
 - name: github.com/mattn/go-isatty
diff --git a/glide.yaml b/glide.yaml
index cb5cf944ec45eed78f58c29376ce050e8b4f65ef..85811a5eee3739a4fa9382e5c8e3ae5958131471 100644
--- a/glide.yaml
+++ b/glide.yaml
@@ -28,8 +28,6 @@ import:
 - package: github.com/Sirupsen/logrus
   version: ^0.11.0
 - package: github.com/streadway/simpleuuid
-- package: github.com/Masterminds/glide
-  version: ~0.12.3
 - package: github.com/Graylog2/go-gelf
 - package: github.com/tendermint/tendermint
   version: ~0.9.2
diff --git a/util/hell/README.md b/util/hell/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 715cb5522ca5a98143a45edf7e9ec49517b6778d..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/util/hell/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-> Hell is other people's packages
-
-While we wait for working package management in go we need a way to make
-maintaining the glide.lock by hand less painful.
-
-To interactively add a package run from the root:
-
-```bash
-go run ./util/hell/cmd/hell/main.go get --interactive github.com/tendermint/tendermint
-```
-
diff --git a/util/hell/cmd/hell/main.go b/util/hell/cmd/hell/main.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 5caa04ac071d3d4fb34a080da15a18dfbcbca2cb..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/util/hell/cmd/hell/main.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,145 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2017 Monax Industries Limited
-//
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-// You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-//    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-
-package main
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
-
-	"github.com/hyperledger/burrow/util/hell"
-
-	"github.com/Masterminds/glide/action"
-	"github.com/Masterminds/glide/cache"
-	"github.com/Masterminds/glide/cfg"
-	"github.com/Masterminds/glide/msg"
-	"github.com/Masterminds/glide/path"
-	"github.com/Masterminds/glide/repo"
-	"github.com/Masterminds/glide/util"
-	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-)
-
-func main() {
-	hellCmd := &cobra.Command{
-		Use:   "hell",
-		Short: "Hell makes the most of it being warm",
-		Long:  "",
-		Run:   func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) { cmd.Help() },
-	}
-
-	// Lock merge command
-	var baseGlideLockFile, depGlideLockFile string
-	lockMergeCmd := &cobra.Command{
-		Use:   "lock-merge",
-		Short: "Merge glide.lock files together",
-		Long: "This command merges two glide.lock files into a single one by copying all dependencies " +
-			"from a base glide.lock and an override glide.lock to an output glide.lock with dependencies " +
-			"from override taking precedence over those from base.",
-		Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
-			baseLockFile, err := cfg.ReadLockFile(baseGlideLockFile)
-			if err != nil {
-				fmt.Printf("Could not read file: %s\n", err)
-				os.Exit(1)
-			}
-			overrideLockFile, err := cfg.ReadLockFile(depGlideLockFile)
-			if err != nil {
-				fmt.Printf("Could not read file: %s\n", err)
-				os.Exit(1)
-			}
-			mergedLockFile, err := hell.MergeGlideLockFiles(baseLockFile, overrideLockFile)
-			if err != nil {
-				fmt.Printf("Could not merge lock files: %s\n", err)
-				os.Exit(1)
-			}
-			mergedBytes, err := mergedLockFile.Marshal()
-			if err != nil {
-				fmt.Printf("Could not marshal lock file: %s\n", err)
-				os.Exit(1)
-			}
-			os.Stdout.Write(mergedBytes)
-		},
-	}
-	lockMergeCmd.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&baseGlideLockFile, "base", "b", "", "base lock file")
-	lockMergeCmd.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&depGlideLockFile, "override", "o", "", "override lock file")
-
-	// Lock update
-	interactive := false
-	getTransitiveCmd := &cobra.Command{
-		Use:   "get",
-		Short: "gets a remote dependency to this project along with its transtive dependencies.",
-		Long: "Gets a remote dependency and its transitive dependencies by adding the remote " +
-			"depednency to this project's glide.yaml and merging the remote dependency's " +
-			"glide.lock into this project's glide.lock",
-		Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
-			if len(args) != 1 {
-				msg.Die("%s requires a single argument of the remote dependency\n", cmd.Name())
-			}
-			rootPackage, _ := util.NormalizeName(args[0])
-			// Add dependency to glide
-			installer := repo.NewInstaller()
-			action.Get(args, installer, false, true, false, !interactive, false)
-			// Now hunt down the repo cache
-			dep := action.EnsureConfig().Imports.Get(rootPackage)
-
-			key, err := cache.Key(dep.Remote())
-			if err != nil {
-				msg.Die("%s requires a single argument of the remote dependency\n", cmd.Name())
-			}
-			cacheDir := filepath.Join(cache.Location(), "src", key)
-			repos, err := dep.GetRepo(cacheDir)
-			if err != nil {
-				msg.Die("Could not get repo: %s", err)
-			}
-			version, err := repos.Version()
-			if err != nil {
-				msg.Die("Could not get version: %s", err)
-			}
-			dep.Pin = version
-			lockPath := filepath.Join(".", path.LockFile)
-			baseLockFile, err := cfg.ReadLockFile(lockPath)
-			if err != nil {
-				msg.Die("Could not read base lock file: %s", err)
-			}
-			overrideLockFile := &cfg.Lockfile{}
-			if path.HasLock(cacheDir) {
-				msg.Info("Found dependency lock file so merging into project lock file")
-				overrideLockFile, err = cfg.ReadLockFile(filepath.Join(cacheDir, path.LockFile))
-				if err != nil {
-					msg.Die("Could not read dependency lock file: %s", err)
-				}
-			}
-			// Add the package to glide lock too!
-			overrideLockFile.Imports = append(overrideLockFile.Imports, cfg.LockFromDependency(dep))
-
-			mergedLockFile, err := hell.MergeGlideLockFiles(baseLockFile, overrideLockFile)
-			if err != nil {
-				msg.Die("Could not merge lock files: %s\n", err)
-			}
-			err = mergedLockFile.WriteFile(lockPath)
-			if err != nil {
-				msg.Die("Could not write merged lock file: %s", err)
-			}
-
-			action.Install(installer, false)
-		},
-	}
-
-	getTransitiveCmd.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&interactive, "interactive", "i", false,
-		"set dependency verion interactively")
-
-	hellCmd.AddCommand(lockMergeCmd)
-	hellCmd.AddCommand(getTransitiveCmd)
-	lockMergeCmd.Execute()
-}
diff --git a/util/hell/merge.go b/util/hell/merge.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 130a80065b9ba82b70a0cbe24ebac439dd79b974..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/util/hell/merge.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,101 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2017 Monax Industries Limited
-//
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-// You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-//    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-
-package hell
-
-import (
-	"crypto/sha256"
-	"fmt"
-	"sort"
-
-	"github.com/Masterminds/glide/cfg"
-)
-
-// Merges two glide lock files together, letting dependencies from 'base' be overwritten
-// by those from 'override'. Returns the resultant glide lock file bytes
-func MergeGlideLockFiles(baseLockFile, overrideLockFile *cfg.Lockfile) (*cfg.Lockfile, error) {
-	imports := make(map[string]*cfg.Lock, len(baseLockFile.Imports))
-	devImports := make(map[string]*cfg.Lock, len(baseLockFile.DevImports))
-	// Copy the base dependencies into a map
-	for _, lock := range baseLockFile.Imports {
-		imports[lock.Name] = lock
-	}
-	for _, lock := range baseLockFile.DevImports {
-		devImports[lock.Name] = lock
-	}
-	// Override base dependencies and add any extra ones
-	for _, lock := range overrideLockFile.Imports {
-		imports[lock.Name] = mergeLocks(imports[lock.Name], lock)
-	}
-	for _, lock := range overrideLockFile.DevImports {
-		devImports[lock.Name] = mergeLocks(imports[lock.Name], lock)
-	}
-
-	deps := make([]*cfg.Dependency, 0, len(imports))
-	devDeps := make([]*cfg.Dependency, 0, len(devImports))
-
-	// Flatten to Dependencies
-	for _, lock := range imports {
-		deps = append(deps, pinnedDependencyFromLock(lock))
-	}
-
-	for _, lock := range devImports {
-		devDeps = append(devDeps, pinnedDependencyFromLock(lock))
-	}
-
-	hasher := sha256.New()
-	hasher.Write(([]byte)(baseLockFile.Hash))
-	hasher.Write(([]byte)(overrideLockFile.Hash))
-
-	return cfg.NewLockfile(deps, devDeps, fmt.Sprintf("%x", hasher.Sum(nil)))
-}
-
-func mergeLocks(baseLock, overrideLock *cfg.Lock) *cfg.Lock {
-	lock := overrideLock.Clone()
-	if baseLock == nil {
-		return lock
-	}
-
-	// Merge and dedupe subpackages
-	subpackages := make([]string, 0, len(lock.Subpackages)+len(baseLock.Subpackages))
-	for _, sp := range lock.Subpackages {
-		subpackages = append(subpackages, sp)
-	}
-	for _, sp := range baseLock.Subpackages {
-		subpackages = append(subpackages, sp)
-	}
-
-	sort.Stable(sort.StringSlice(subpackages))
-
-	dedupeSubpackages := make([]string, 0, len(subpackages))
-
-	lastSp := ""
-	elided := 0
-	for _, sp := range subpackages {
-		if lastSp == sp {
-			elided++
-		} else {
-			dedupeSubpackages = append(dedupeSubpackages, sp)
-			lastSp = sp
-		}
-	}
-	lock.Subpackages = dedupeSubpackages[:len(dedupeSubpackages)-elided]
-	return lock
-}
-
-func pinnedDependencyFromLock(lock *cfg.Lock) *cfg.Dependency {
-	dep := cfg.DependencyFromLock(lock)
-	dep.Pin = lock.Version
-	return dep
-}
diff --git a/util/hell/merge_test.go b/util/hell/merge_test.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 5fffedb9c93d01cc24782a657a09282d408933a9..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/util/hell/merge_test.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2017 Monax Industries Limited
-//
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-// You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-//    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-
-package hell
-
-import (
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/Masterminds/glide/cfg"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
-)
-
-const baseLockYml = `imports:
-- name: github.com/gogo/protobuf
-  version: 82d16f734d6d871204a3feb1a73cb220cc92574c
-- name: github.com/tendermint/tendermint
-  version: aaea0c5d2e3ecfbf29f2608f9d43649ec7f07f50
-  subpackages:
-  - node
-  - proxy
-  - types
-  - version
-  - consensus
-  - rpc/core/types
-  - blockchain
-  - mempool
-  - rpc/core
-  - state
-`
-const overrideLockYml = `imports:
-- name: github.com/tendermint/tendermint
-  version: 764091dfbb035f1b28da4b067526e04c6a849966
-  subpackages:
-  - benchmarks
-  - proxy
-  - types
-  - version
-`
-const expectedLockYml = `imports:
-- name: github.com/gogo/protobuf
-  version: 82d16f734d6d871204a3feb1a73cb220cc92574c
-- name: github.com/tendermint/tendermint
-  version: 764091dfbb035f1b28da4b067526e04c6a849966
-  subpackages:
-  - benchmarks
-  - blockchain
-  - consensus
-  - mempool
-  - node
-  - proxy
-  - rpc/core
-  - rpc/core/types
-testImports: []
-`
-
-func TestMergeGlideLockFiles(t *testing.T) {
-	baseLockFile, err := cfg.LockfileFromYaml(([]byte)(baseLockYml))
-	assert.NoError(t, err, "Lockfile should parse")
-
-	overrideLockFile, err := cfg.LockfileFromYaml(([]byte)(overrideLockYml))
-	assert.NoError(t, err, "Lockfile should parse")
-
-	mergedLockFile, err := MergeGlideLockFiles(baseLockFile, overrideLockFile)
-	assert.NoError(t, err, "Lockfiles should merge")
-
-	mergedYmlBytes, err := mergedLockFile.Marshal()
-	assert.NoError(t, err, "Lockfile should marshal")
-
-	ymlLines := strings.Split(string(mergedYmlBytes), "\n")
-	// Drop the updated and hash lines
-	actualYml := strings.Join(ymlLines[2:], "\n")
-	assert.Equal(t, expectedLockYml, actualYml)
-}