diff --git a/dev-util/watchr/Manifest b/dev-util/watchr/Manifest
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index 9ca5b940a08e7..0000000000000
--- a/dev-util/watchr/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST watchr-0.7.gem 19456 SHA256 c3a81d544dda23c476992132ab47718aa978fe0b528cc42d6ef08a1e973514ff SHA512 fea5081142f451523d307bdfa152254213e72e7760d08a6e010ad492b742668f418d079af32f6d82ed2f3c869e51e82507377403169be688615377de0825416b WHIRLPOOL 1eb86947375363397e7c5fc64f553b67bd6958f0f4f8ef671c798c630d9f8c965dc318cf6c1bcf5d710837b85858904dabaf32c92b8c71f6cc32c23686fa141c
diff --git a/dev-util/watchr/metadata.xml b/dev-util/watchr/metadata.xml
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index 9abf9c6b8ec27..0000000000000
--- a/dev-util/watchr/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-<maintainer type="person"><email>graaff@gentoo.org</email></maintainer>
-<maintainer type="project">
-<email>ruby@gentoo.org</email>
-<name>Gentoo Ruby Project</name>
-</maintainer>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-util/watchr/watchr-0.7.ebuild b/dev-util/watchr/watchr-0.7.ebuild
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index 608285211cd1c..0000000000000
--- a/dev-util/watchr/watchr-0.7.ebuild
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@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=5
-USE_RUBY="ruby20 ruby21"
-
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_TASK_DOC=""
-
-# Requires every which we don't have packaged.
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_TASK_TEST=""
-
-inherit ruby-fakegem
-
-DESCRIPTION="Modern continuous testing (flexible alternative to Autotest)"
-HOMEPAGE="http://mynyml.com/ruby/flexible-continuous-testing"
-LICENSE="MIT"
-
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86 ~x86-macos"
-SLOT="0"
-IUSE=""
-
-# This is an optional dependency, but highly recommended on unix systems
-ruby_add_rdepend "dev-ruby/rev"