diff --git a/src/libraries/Microsoft.NETCore.Targets/pkg/Microsoft.NETCore.Targets.pkgproj b/src/libraries/Microsoft.NETCore.Targets/pkg/Microsoft.NETCore.Targets.pkgproj
deleted file mode 100644
index 4d776ade0605e8..00000000000000
--- a/src/libraries/Microsoft.NETCore.Targets/pkg/Microsoft.NETCore.Targets.pkgproj
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-<Project DefaultTargets="Build">
-  <Import Project="$([MSBuild]::GetPathOfFileAbove(Directory.Build.props))" />
-  <PropertyGroup>
-    <SkipValidatePackage>true</SkipValidatePackage>
-    <!-- We don't need to harvest the stable packages to build this -->
-    <HarvestStablePackage>false</HarvestStablePackage>
-    <PackageDescription>Provides supporting infrastructure for portable projects: support identifiers that define framework and runtime for support targets and packages that reference the minimum supported package versions when targeting these.</PackageDescription>
-  </PropertyGroup>
-  <ItemGroup>
-    <!-- make this package installable and noop in a packages.config-based project -->
-    <File Include="$(PlaceHolderFile)">
-      <TargetPath>lib/netstandard1.0</TargetPath>
-    </File>
-  </ItemGroup>
-  <Import Project="$([MSBuild]::GetPathOfFileAbove(Directory.Build.targets))" />
-</Project>
diff --git a/src/libraries/Microsoft.NETCore.Targets/src/Microsoft.NETCore.Targets.csproj b/src/libraries/Microsoft.NETCore.Targets/src/Microsoft.NETCore.Targets.csproj
deleted file mode 100644
index 987d53fcabe74f..00000000000000
--- a/src/libraries/Microsoft.NETCore.Targets/src/Microsoft.NETCore.Targets.csproj
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-<Project Sdk="Microsoft.Build.NoTargets">
-  <!-- These are wrapper project files for packaging.-->
-  <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFrameworks>netstandard1.0</TargetFrameworks>
-    <DisableImplicitFrameworkReferences>true</DisableImplicitFrameworkReferences>
-    <!-- Avoid trying to binplace non existent documentation file.-->
-    <EnableBinPlacing>false</EnableBinPlacing>
-  </PropertyGroup>
-</Project>
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diff --git a/src/libraries/libraries-packages.proj b/src/libraries/libraries-packages.proj
index 9af91645ebef91..d9344744abdc16 100644
--- a/src/libraries/libraries-packages.proj
+++ b/src/libraries/libraries-packages.proj
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@
     <ProjectReference Include="$(PkgDir)*\*.proj" Exclude="$(PkgDir)test\*" />
     <ProjectReference Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)\Microsoft.NETCore.Platforms\src\Microsoft.NETCore.Platforms.csproj"
                       Condition="('$(BuildingAnOfficialBuildLeg)' != 'true' Or '$(BuildAllConfigurations)' == 'true') and '$(PgoInstrument)' != 'true'" />
-    <ProjectReference Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)\Microsoft.NETCore.Targets\src\Microsoft.NETCore.Targets.csproj"
-                      Condition="('$(BuildingAnOfficialBuildLeg)' != 'true' Or '$(BuildAllConfigurations)' == 'true') and '$(PgoInstrument)' != 'true'" />
     <ProjectReference Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)*\src\*.*proj"
                       Condition="('$(BuildAllConfigurations)' == 'true' or '$(DotNetBuildFromSource)' == 'true')"
                       Exclude="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)*\src\**\*.shproj"/>
diff --git a/src/libraries/pkg/baseline/packageIndex.json b/src/libraries/pkg/baseline/packageIndex.json
index 4baf29fd9f0bc3..33389f789205c8 100644
--- a/src/libraries/pkg/baseline/packageIndex.json
+++ b/src/libraries/pkg/baseline/packageIndex.json
@@ -1251,7 +1251,7 @@
         "3.0.0",
         "5.0.0"
       ],
-      "BaselineVersion": "6.0.0",
+      "BaselineVersion": "5.0.0",
       "InboxOn": {}
     },
     "Microsoft.Phone": {