diff --git a/pkg/dev_compiler/CHANGELOG.md b/pkg/dev_compiler/CHANGELOG.md
index 9633a3d211a..e7da8f1c4dd 100644
--- a/pkg/dev_compiler/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/pkg/dev_compiler/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 - add support for AMD modules and make it the default.
 - precompile the SDK in AMD, CommonJS, and ES6 flavors.
 - legacy module format is deprecated.
+- remove --package-paths option
 
 ## 0.1.24
 - workaround breaking change on requestAnimationFrame
diff --git a/pkg/dev_compiler/lib/src/analyzer/context.dart b/pkg/dev_compiler/lib/src/analyzer/context.dart
index 5617f7fe4c8..d2bfe962866 100644
--- a/pkg/dev_compiler/lib/src/analyzer/context.dart
+++ b/pkg/dev_compiler/lib/src/analyzer/context.dart
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ import 'package:analyzer/src/summary/summary_sdk.dart' show SummaryBasedDartSdk;
 import 'package:cli_util/cli_util.dart' show getSdkDir;
 import 'package:path/path.dart' as path;
 
-import 'multi_package_resolver.dart' show MultiPackageResolver;
-
 /// Options used to set up Source URI resolution in the analysis context.
 class AnalyzerOptions {
   /// Custom URI mappings, such as "dart:foo" -> "path/to/foo.dart"
@@ -35,9 +33,6 @@ class AnalyzerOptions {
   /// List of summary file paths.
   final List<String> summaryPaths;
 
-  /// List of paths used for the multi-package resolver.
-  final List<String> packagePaths;
-
   /// Path to the dart-sdk. Null if `useMockSdk` is true or if the path couldn't
   /// be determined
   final String dartSdkPath;
@@ -55,7 +50,6 @@ class AnalyzerOptions {
       this.dartSdkSummaryPath,
       this.customUrlMappings: const {},
       this.packageRoot: null,
-      this.packagePaths: const [],
       this.declaredVariables: const {}})
       : dartSdkPath = dartSdkPath ?? getSdkDir().path;
 
@@ -77,13 +71,9 @@ class AnalyzerOptions {
         dartSdkSummaryPath: sdkSummaryPath,
         customUrlMappings: _parseUrlMappings(args['url-mapping']),
         packageRoot: args['package-root'],
-        packagePaths: (args['package-paths'] as String)?.split(',') ?? [],
         declaredVariables: declaredVariables);
   }
 
-  /// Whether to resolve 'package:' uris using the multi-package resolver.
-  bool get useMultiPackage => packagePaths.isNotEmpty;
-
   static void addArguments(ArgParser parser) {
     parser
       ..addOption('summary',
@@ -98,9 +88,7 @@ class AnalyzerOptions {
           help: '--url-mapping=libraryUri,/path/to/library.dart uses\n'
               'library.dart as the source for an import of of "libraryUri".',
           allowMultiple: true,
-          splitCommas: false)
-      ..addOption('package-paths',
-          help: 'use a list of directories to resolve "package:" imports');
+          splitCommas: false);
   }
 
   static Map<String, String> _parseUrlMappings(Iterable argument) {
@@ -168,12 +156,7 @@ List<UriResolver> createFileResolvers(AnalyzerOptions options,
         builder.convertPackagesToMap(builder.createPackageMap('')));
   }
 
-  return [
-    new ResourceUriResolver(resourceProvider),
-    options.useMultiPackage
-        ? new MultiPackageResolver(options.packagePaths)
-        : packageResolver()
-  ];
+  return [new ResourceUriResolver(resourceProvider), packageResolver()];
 }
 
 FolderBasedDartSdk _createFolderBasedDartSdk(String sdkPath) {
diff --git a/pkg/dev_compiler/lib/src/analyzer/multi_package_resolver.dart b/pkg/dev_compiler/lib/src/analyzer/multi_package_resolver.dart
deleted file mode 100644
index 66905eca920..00000000000
--- a/pkg/dev_compiler/lib/src/analyzer/multi_package_resolver.dart
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2014, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
-// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
-// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
-
-import 'dart:io';
-
-import 'package:analyzer/src/generated/java_io.dart';
-import 'package:analyzer/src/generated/source.dart';
-import 'package:analyzer/src/generated/source_io.dart';
-import 'package:path/path.dart' show join;
-
-/// A package resolver that supports a non-standard package layout, where
-/// packages with dotted names are expanded to a hierarchy of directories, and
-/// packages can be found on one or more locations.
-class MultiPackageResolver extends UriResolver {
-  final List<String> searchPaths;
-  MultiPackageResolver(this.searchPaths);
-
-  @override
-  Source resolveAbsolute(Uri uri, [Uri actualUri]) {
-    var candidates = _expandPath(uri);
-    if (candidates == null) return null;
-
-    for (var path in candidates) {
-      var resolvedPath = _resolve(path);
-      if (resolvedPath != null) {
-        return new FileBasedSource(
-            new JavaFile(resolvedPath), actualUri != null ? actualUri : uri);
-      }
-    }
-    return null;
-  }
-
-  /// Resolve [path] by looking at each prefix in [searchPaths] and returning
-  /// the first location where `prefix + path` exists.
-  String _resolve(String path) {
-    for (var prefix in searchPaths) {
-      var resolvedPath = join(prefix, path);
-      if (new File(resolvedPath).existsSync()) return resolvedPath;
-    }
-    return null;
-  }
-
-  /// Expand `uri.path`, replacing dots in the package name with slashes.
-  List<String> _expandPath(Uri uri) {
-    if (uri.scheme != 'package') return null;
-    var path = uri.path;
-    var slashPos = path.indexOf('/');
-    var packagePath = path.substring(0, slashPos).replaceAll(".", "/");
-    var filePath = path.substring(slashPos + 1);
-    return ['$packagePath/lib/$filePath', '$packagePath/$filePath'];
-  }
-}