diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 6027aa08..6e36b2b2 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@
 This file will contain a list of notable changes for each release. Note
 the information in this file is in reverse order.
 
+## OpenRC-0.24
+
+Since the deptree2dot tool and the perl requirement are completely
+optional, the deptree2dot tool has been moved to the support directory.
+As a result, the MKTOOLS=yes/no switch has been removed from the makefiles.
+
 ## OpenRC-0.23
 
 The tmpfiles.d processing code, which was part of previous versions of
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index edf64267..9e61d193 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ MKSELINUX=yes
 MKSTATICLIBS=no
 MKTERMCAP=ncurses
 MKTERMCAP=termcap
-MKTOOLS=yes
 PKG_PREFIX=/usr/pkg
 LOCAL_PREFIX=/usr/local
 PREFIX=/usr/local
diff --git a/src/Makefile b/src/Makefile
index ffbf8d6e..e3750347 100644
--- a/src/Makefile
+++ b/src/Makefile
@@ -3,9 +3,5 @@
 
 SUBDIR=		test libeinfo librc rc
 
-ifeq (${MKTOOLS},yes)
-SUBDIR+= tools
-endif
-
 MK=		../mk
 include		${MK}/subdir.mk
diff --git a/src/tools/Makefile b/src/tools/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 92ff5063..00000000
--- a/src/tools/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-DIR=	${UPREFIX}/bin
-BIN=	deptree2dot
-
-MK=	../../mk
-include ${MK}/scripts.mk
diff --git a/support/deptree2dot/README.md b/support/deptree2dot/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3df9a520
--- /dev/null
+++ b/support/deptree2dot/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# deptree2dot - Graph the OpenRC Dependency Tree
+
+This utility can be used to graph the OpenRC dependency tree. It
+requires perl5.x and converts the tree to a .dot file which can be
+processed by graphviz.
+
+Example usage:
+
+$ chmod +x deptree2dot
+$deptree2dot > deptree.dot
+$deptree2dot | dot -Tpng -o deptree.png
diff --git a/src/tools/deptree2dot b/support/deptree2dot/deptree2dot
similarity index 100%
rename from src/tools/deptree2dot
rename to support/deptree2dot/deptree2dot