diff --git a/api/k8sdeps/transformer/factory.go b/api/internal/k8sdeps/transformer/factory.go
similarity index 90%
rename from api/k8sdeps/transformer/factory.go
rename to api/internal/k8sdeps/transformer/factory.go
index 2d5ad22bb..622c4a6cf 100644
--- a/api/k8sdeps/transformer/factory.go
+++ b/api/internal/k8sdeps/transformer/factory.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 package transformer
 
 import (
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/k8sdeps/transformer/patch"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/k8sdeps/transformer/patch"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resmap"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resource"
 )
diff --git a/api/k8sdeps/transformer/patch/conflictdetector.go b/api/internal/k8sdeps/transformer/patch/conflictdetector.go
similarity index 100%
rename from api/k8sdeps/transformer/patch/conflictdetector.go
rename to api/internal/k8sdeps/transformer/patch/conflictdetector.go
diff --git a/api/internal/target/plugindir_test.go b/api/internal/target/plugindir_test.go
index 2f7bff1eb..16f500f51 100644
--- a/api/internal/target/plugindir_test.go
+++ b/api/internal/target/plugindir_test.go
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filesys"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/k8sdeps/transformer"
 	pLdr "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/plugins/loader"
 	. "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/target"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/k8sdeps/kunstruct"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/k8sdeps/transformer"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/konfig"
 	fLdr "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/loader"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resmap"
diff --git a/api/k8sdeps/doc.go b/api/k8sdeps/doc.go
index c98cb8d68..f2f85f0bb 100644
--- a/api/k8sdeps/doc.go
+++ b/api/k8sdeps/doc.go
@@ -1,19 +1,13 @@
-/*
-Copyright 2018 The Kubernetes Authors.
-
-Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-limitations under the License.
-*/
+// Copyright 2019 The Kubernetes Authors.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
+// 2019 Nov 06  These notes are somewhat out of date, but left
+// for historical purposes need to be updated (or simply removed
+// with all the code).  The kubectl integration plan described
+// below is no longer the plan of record.
+//
+// --------
+//
 // It's possible that kustomize's features will be vendored into
 // the kubernetes/kubernetes repo and made available to kubectl
 // commands, while at the same time the kustomize program will
diff --git a/api/krusty/kustomizer.go b/api/krusty/kustomizer.go
index ec14a041f..61a43f9d5 100644
--- a/api/krusty/kustomizer.go
+++ b/api/krusty/kustomizer.go
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ package krusty
 import (
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/builtins"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/filesys"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/k8sdeps/transformer"
 	pLdr "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/plugins/loader"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/target"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/k8sdeps/kunstruct"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/k8sdeps/transformer"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/k8sdeps/validator"
 	fLdr "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/loader"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/resmap"
diff --git a/api/testutils/kusttest/kusttestharness.go b/api/testutils/kusttest/kusttestharness.go
index ddfc0d24b..7311784d4 100644
--- a/api/testutils/kusttest/kusttestharness.go
+++ b/api/testutils/kusttest/kusttestharness.go
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
+	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/k8sdeps/transformer"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/loadertest"
 	pLdr "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/plugins/loader"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/internal/target"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/k8sdeps/kunstruct"
-	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/k8sdeps/transformer"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/konfig"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/konfig/builtinpluginconsts"
 	fLdr "sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/loader"