diff --git a/dev-ml/js_of_ocaml/Manifest b/dev-ml/js_of_ocaml/Manifest
index a38e8c793577c..626682d19cd47 100644
--- a/dev-ml/js_of_ocaml/Manifest
+++ b/dev-ml/js_of_ocaml/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST js_of_ocaml-2.8.1.tar.gz 1329825 SHA256 954ed80b3f37e10666e36ffa3c1d846e1913b8c7be9f0af79889f829b1333e1e SHA512 bce4b173c29396ce7f28f12afd3185cdf402150a7390b9f5a21f14f71e72b3e5ae16234ed65e9d7b18ed2c0de524b658495d62d4673dfe3e61d5f0556b5a125c WHIRLPOOL ac66e7fa70e7365dc5a404d95b9f14186d727756df3aaebfa5d433237d33cb1f070ad74db12136b2a2b2db75b3eac127729343838f361000f962f2a5bc309d79
 DIST js_of_ocaml-2.8.2.tar.gz 1334891 SHA256 93d55c7a4883783acb3eee4c6a126993f548f1467d1f08a8d72fa30385a673c4 SHA512 07550311b53a54ec55b5b1e63acbf8eee4757d643cf9639efb035faa029cde4b47c46d732dd2fa3ec0606edf1ef094d096a375c694b0b7255ada16e0c632c4ed WHIRLPOOL 6eac8dccd5217aaa91dc3f899a6ec949afff725dcd1d60276660b0c2e4ca71faf2d55c0a747a3cab05ca55cf7962aa4dbcd2679ec4f8639c7ccbdf414a105d56
diff --git a/dev-ml/js_of_ocaml/js_of_ocaml-2.8.1.ebuild b/dev-ml/js_of_ocaml/js_of_ocaml-2.8.1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 58bce363cc0fd..0000000000000
--- a/dev-ml/js_of_ocaml/js_of_ocaml-2.8.1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Id$
-
-EAPI=5
-
-inherit findlib eutils
-
-DESCRIPTION="A compiler from OCaml bytecode to javascript"
-HOMEPAGE="http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/ocsigen/js_of_ocaml/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="LGPL-2.1-with-linking-exception"
-SLOT="0/${PV}"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-IUSE="+async +ocamlopt doc +deriving +ppx +ppx-deriving +react +xml X"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	>=dev-lang/ocaml-3.12:=[ocamlopt?,X?]
-	>=dev-ml/lwt-2.4.4:=
-	async? ( dev-ml/async_kernel:= )
-	react? ( dev-ml/react:=  dev-ml/reactiveData:= )
-	xml? ( >=dev-ml/tyxml-4:= )
-	ppx? ( dev-ml/ppx_tools:= )
-	ppx-deriving? ( dev-ml/ppx_deriving:= )
-	dev-ml/cmdliner:=
-	dev-ml/menhir:=
-	dev-ml/ocaml-base64:=
-	dev-ml/camlp4:=
-	dev-ml/cppo:=
-	deriving? ( >=dev-ml/deriving-0.6:= )"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	dev-ml/ocamlbuild"
-
-src_configure() {
-	printf "\n\n" >> Makefile.conf
-	use ocamlopt || echo "BEST := byte" >> Makefile.conf
-	use ocamlopt || echo "NATDYNLINK := NO" >> Makefile.conf
-	use deriving || echo "WITH_DERIVING := NO" >> Makefile.conf
-	use X || echo "WITH_GRAPHICS := NO" >> Makefile.conf
-	use react || echo "WITH_REACT := NO" >> Makefile.conf
-	use ppx || echo "WITH_PPX := NO" >> Makefile.conf
-	use ppx-deriving || echo "WITH_PPX_PPX_DERIVING := NO" >> Makefile.conf
-	use async || echo "WITH_ASYNC := NO" >> Makefile.conf
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	emake -j1
-	use doc && emake doc
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	findlib_src_preinst
-	emake BINDIR="${ED}/usr/bin/" install
-	dodoc CHANGES README.md
-	use doc && dohtml -r doc/api/html/
-}