diff --git a/packages/npm/package.py b/packages/npm/package.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 0d6480f210428b035fb54eff79d7e8416e2dd399..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/packages/npm/package.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,131 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
-# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
-
-import os
-import shutil
-
-from spack.package import *
-
-
-class Npm(Package):
-    """npm: A package manager for javascript."""
-
-    homepage = "https://github.com/npm/cli"
-    # base https://www.npmjs.com/
-
-    git = "https://github.com/npm/cli.git"
-    url = "https://registry.npmjs.org/npm/-/npm-9.3.1.tgz"
-
-    version("9.3.1", sha256="41caa26a340b0562bc5429d28792049c980fe3e872b42b82cad94e8f70e37f40")
-    version("8.19.3", sha256="634bf4e0dc87be771ebf48a058629960e979a209c20a51ebdbc4897ca6a25260")
-    version("7.24.2", sha256="5b9eeea011f8bc3b76e55cc33339e87213800677f37e0756ad13ef0e9eaccd64")
-    version("6.14.18", sha256="c9b15f277e2a0b1b57e05bad04504296a27024555d56c2aa967f862e957ad2ed")
-
-    version(
-        "6.14.9",
-        sha256="1e0e880ce0d5adf0120fb3f92fc8e5ea5bac73681d37282615d074ff670f7703",
-        deprecated=True,
-    )
-    version(
-        "6.14.8",
-        sha256="fe8e873cb606c06f67f666b4725eb9122c8927f677c8c0baf1477f0ff81f5a2c",
-        deprecated=True,
-    )
-    version(
-        "6.13.7",
-        sha256="6adf71c198d61a5790cf0e057f4ab72c6ef6c345d72bed8bb7212cb9db969494",
-        deprecated=True,
-    )
-    version(
-        "6.13.4",
-        sha256="a063290bd5fa06a8753de14169b7b243750432f42d01213fbd699e6b85916de7",
-        deprecated=True,
-    )
-    version(
-        "3.10.9",
-        sha256="fb0871b1aebf4b74717a72289fade356aedca83ee54e7386e38cb51874501dd6",
-        deprecated=True,
-    )
-    version(
-        "3.10.5",
-        sha256="ff019769e186152098841c1fa6325e5a79f7903a45f13bd0046a4dc8e63f845f",
-        deprecated=True,
-    )
-
-    depends_on("node-js", type=("build", "run"))
-    depends_on("libvips")
-
-    # npm 6.13.4 ships with node-gyp 5.0.5, which contains several Python 3
-    # compatibility issues on macOS. Manually update to node-gyp 6.0.1 for
-    # full Python 3 support.
-    resource(
-        name="node-gyp",
-        destination="node-gyp",
-        url="https://registry.npmjs.org/node-gyp/-/node-gyp-6.0.1.tgz",
-        sha256="bbc0e137e17a63676efc97a0e3b1fcf101498a1c2c01c3341cd9491f248711b8",
-        when="@6",
-    )
-    resource(
-        name="env-paths",
-        destination="env-paths",
-        url="https://registry.npmjs.org/env-paths/-/env-paths-2.2.0.tgz",
-        sha256="168b394fbca60ea81dc84b1824466df96246b9eb4d671c2541f55f408a264b4c",
-        when="@6",
-    )
-
-    @when("@6")
-    def patch(self):
-        shutil.rmtree("node_modules/node-gyp")
-        install_tree("node-gyp/package", "node_modules/node-gyp")
-        filter_file(r'"node-gyp": "\^5\..*"', '"node-gyp": "^6.0.1"', "package.json")
-        install_tree("env-paths/package", "node_modules/env-paths")
-
-    @when("@:8")
-    def install(self, spec, prefix):
-        # `npm install .` doesn't work properly out of the box on npm up to 8, so we do
-        # what it would do manually. The only thing we seem to miss is docs. In
-        # particular, it will end up symlinking into the stage, which spack then
-        # deletes. You can avoid that with `npm install $(npm pack .)`, but `npm pack`
-        # also seems to fail when run from the tarball on macos. So we just copy manually.
-        to_install = [
-            "LICENSE",
-            "README.md",
-            "bin",
-            "docs",
-            "index.js",
-            "lib",
-            "node_modules",
-            "package.json",
-        ]
-
-        mkdirp(prefix.bin)
-        mkdirp(prefix.lib.node_modules.npm)
-
-        # manually install all the files above (if they exist for a particular node version)
-        for filename in to_install:
-            if os.path.exists(filename):
-                install_fn = install if os.path.isfile(filename) else install_tree
-                install_fn(filename, os.path.join(prefix.lib.node_modules.npm, filename))
-
-        # set up symlinks in bin
-        node_modules_bin = os.path.relpath(prefix.lib.node_modules.npm.bin, prefix.bin)
-        symlink(os.path.join(node_modules_bin, "npm-cli.js"), prefix.bin.npm)
-        symlink(os.path.join(node_modules_bin, "npx-cli.js"), prefix.bin.npx)
-
-    @when("@9:")
-    def install(self, spec, prefix):
-        # in npm 9, `npm install .` finally works within the repo, so we can just call it.
-        node = which("node", required=True)
-        node("bin/npm-cli.js", "install", "-ddd", "--global", f"--prefix={prefix}", ".")
-
-    def setup_dependent_build_environment(self, env, dependent_spec):
-        npm_config_cache_dir = "%s/npm-cache" % dependent_spec.prefix
-        if not os.path.isdir(npm_config_cache_dir):
-            mkdirp(npm_config_cache_dir)
-        env.set("npm_config_cache", npm_config_cache_dir)
-
-    def setup_dependent_run_environment(self, env, dependent_spec):
-        npm_config_cache_dir = "%s/npm-cache" % dependent_spec.prefix
-        env.set("npm_config_cache", npm_config_cache_dir)
diff --git a/packages/py-igor/package.py b/packages/py-igor/package.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 5377ce1f3c268bc501048a63ccf6ab34c3526d5f..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/packages/py-igor/package.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-# (backported from Spack v0.20.0)
-
-# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
-# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
-
-from spack.package import *
-
-
-class PyIgor(PythonPackage):
-    """igor: interface for reading binary IGOR files."""
-
-    homepage = "http://blog.tremily.us/posts/igor/"
-    pypi = "igor/igor-0.3.tar.gz"
-
-    version("0.3", sha256="b04ac38c68fb81cf3167a9981dc5a20379112d40268bb72c5a8514dc8051abba")
-
-    depends_on("py-setuptools", type="build")
-    depends_on("py-numpy", type=("build", "run"))
-    depends_on("py-matplotlib", type=("build", "run"))
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diff --git a/packages/py-ray/package.py b/packages/py-ray/package.py
index c687d7eef4d8bc9379de9f63218967b1db4118f8..55bdd87d1f47c4ab893346d4f71e05687717b390 100644
--- a/packages/py-ray/package.py
+++ b/packages/py-ray/package.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013-2022 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
 # Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ class PyRay(PythonPackage):
     depends_on("py-attrs", when="@2.0.1", type=("build", "run"))
     depends_on("py-click@7:8.0.4", when="@2.0.1", type=("build", "run"))
     depends_on("py-click@7.0:", when="@0.8.7", type=("build", "run"))
-    depends_on("py-dataclasses", when="@2.0.1 ^python@:3.6", type=("build", "run"))
     depends_on("py-filelock", type=("build", "run"))
     depends_on("py-grpcio@1.32:1.43.0", when="@2.0.1 ^python@:3.9", type=("build", "run"))
     depends_on("py-grpcio@1.42:1.43.0", when="@2.0.1 ^python@3.10:", type=("build", "run"))
@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ class PyRay(PythonPackage):
     depends_on("py-setproctitle", type=("build", "run"))
     depends_on("py-colorama", type=("build", "run"))
     depends_on("py-psutil", type=("build", "run"))
-
+    
     with when("+default"):
         depends_on("py-aiohttp@3.7:", type=("build", "run"))
         depends_on("py-aiohttp-cors", type=("build", "run"))
@@ -84,6 +83,14 @@ class PyRay(PythonPackage):
 
     build_directory = "python"
 
+    def patch(self):
+        filter_file(
+            'bazel_flags = ["--verbose_failures"]',
+            f'bazel_flags = ["--verbose_failures", "--jobs={make_jobs}"]',
+            join_path("python", "setup.py"),
+            string=True,
+        )
+
     def setup_build_environment(self, env):
         env.set("SKIP_THIRDPARTY_INSTALL", "1")
 
@@ -93,4 +100,4 @@ class PyRay(PythonPackage):
         with working_dir(join_path("python", "ray", "dashboard", "client")):
             npm = which("npm")
             npm("ci")
-            npm("run", "build")
+            npm("run", "build")
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