diff --git a/guide.md b/guide.md
index e7e8f4b4..f8c23194 100644
--- a/guide.md
+++ b/guide.md
@@ -53,9 +53,6 @@ Calling `openrc` without any arguments will try to reset all services so
 that the current runlevel is satisfied; if you manually started apache it will be 
 stopped, and if squid died but is in the current runlevel it'll be restarted.
 
-There is a `service` helper that emulates the syntax seen on e.g. older Redhat
-and Ubuntu (`service nginx start` etc.)
-
 # Runlevels
 
 OpenRC has a concept of runlevels, similar to what sysvinit historically 
diff --git a/src/rc/Makefile b/src/rc/Makefile
index a2c7c306..cb90875c 100644
--- a/src/rc/Makefile
+++ b/src/rc/Makefile
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ SBINDIR=	${PREFIX}/sbin
 LINKDIR=	${LIBEXECDIR}
 
 BINPROGS=	rc-status
-SBINPROGS = openrc openrc-run rc rc-service rc-update runscript service \
+SBINPROGS = openrc openrc-run rc rc-service rc-update runscript \
 			start-stop-daemon supervise-daemon
 RC_BINPROGS=	einfon einfo ewarnn ewarn eerrorn eerror ebegin eend ewend \
 				eindent eoutdent esyslog eval_ecolors ewaitfile \
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ rc-depend: rc-depend.o _usage.o rc-misc.o
 rc-status: rc-status.o _usage.o rc-misc.o
 	${CC} ${LOCAL_CFLAGS} ${LOCAL_LDFLAGS} ${CFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS} -o $@ $^ ${LDADD}
 
-rc-service service: rc-service.o _usage.o rc-misc.o
+rc-service: rc-service.o _usage.o rc-misc.o
 	${CC} ${LOCAL_CFLAGS} ${LOCAL_LDFLAGS} ${CFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS} -o $@ $^ ${LDADD}
 
 rc-update: rc-update.o _usage.o rc-misc.o