diff --git a/usr/bin/archboot-x86_64-create-container.sh b/usr/bin/archboot-x86_64-create-container.sh
index c4e3ce7ad..3331c26c2 100755
--- a/usr/bin/archboot-x86_64-create-container.sh
+++ b/usr/bin/archboot-x86_64-create-container.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 # created by Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
 . /usr/lib/archboot/common.sh
 . /usr/lib/archboot/container.sh
-_CACHEDIR="${1}/var/cache/pacman/pkg"
 _ARCHBOOT="archboot"
 _KEYRING="archlinux"
 [[ -z "${1}" ]] && _usage