diff --git a/app-editors/emacs/Manifest b/app-editors/emacs/Manifest
index 0e8bb596be387..747127d7eac0b 100644
--- a/app-editors/emacs/Manifest
+++ b/app-editors/emacs/Manifest
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diff --git a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-24.5-r1.ebuild b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-24.5-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index aa54257c1476a..0000000000000
--- a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-24.5-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,347 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Id$
-
-EAPI=5
-
-inherit autotools elisp-common eutils flag-o-matic multilib readme.gentoo
-
-DESCRIPTION="The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/"
-SRC_URI="mirror://gnu/emacs/${P}.tar.xz
-	https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/emacs/${P}-patches-1.tar.xz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3+ FDL-1.3+ BSD HPND MIT W3C unicode PSF-2"
-SLOT="24"
-KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm ~hppa ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 ~s390 ~sh sparc x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~x86-fbsd ~x86-freebsd ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos"
-IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena dbus games gconf gfile gif gpm gsettings gtk +gtk3 gzip-el hesiod imagemagick +inotify jpeg kerberos libxml2 livecd m17n-lib motif pax_kernel png selinux sound source ssl svg tiff toolkit-scroll-bars wide-int X Xaw3d xft +xpm zlib"
-REQUIRED_USE="?? ( aqua X )"
-
-RDEPEND="sys-libs/ncurses:0
-	>=app-eselect/eselect-emacs-1.16
-	>=app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo-1.5[games?,X?]
-	net-libs/liblockfile
-	acl? ( virtual/acl )
-	alsa? ( media-libs/alsa-lib )
-	dbus? ( sys-apps/dbus )
-	gpm? ( sys-libs/gpm )
-	hesiod? ( net-dns/hesiod )
-	!inotify? ( gfile? ( >=dev-libs/glib-2.28.6 ) )
-	kerberos? ( virtual/krb5 )
-	libxml2? ( >=dev-libs/libxml2-2.2.0 )
-	selinux? ( sys-libs/libselinux )
-	ssl? ( net-libs/gnutls )
-	zlib? ( sys-libs/zlib )
-	X? (
-		x11-libs/libXmu
-		x11-libs/libXt
-		x11-misc/xbitmaps
-		gconf? ( >=gnome-base/gconf-2.26.2 )
-		gsettings? ( >=dev-libs/glib-2.28.6 )
-		gif? ( media-libs/giflib:0= )
-		jpeg? ( virtual/jpeg:0= )
-		png? ( >=media-libs/libpng-1.4:0= )
-		svg? ( >=gnome-base/librsvg-2.0 )
-		tiff? ( media-libs/tiff:0 )
-		xpm? ( x11-libs/libXpm )
-		imagemagick? ( >=media-gfx/imagemagick-6.6.2:0= )
-		xft? (
-			media-libs/fontconfig
-			media-libs/freetype
-			x11-libs/libXft
-			m17n-lib? (
-				>=dev-libs/libotf-0.9.4
-				>=dev-libs/m17n-lib-1.5.1
-			)
-		)
-		gtk? (
-			gtk3? ( x11-libs/gtk+:3 )
-			!gtk3? ( x11-libs/gtk+:2 )
-		)
-		!gtk? (
-			motif? ( >=x11-libs/motif-2.3:0 )
-			!motif? (
-				Xaw3d? ( x11-libs/libXaw3d )
-				!Xaw3d? ( athena? ( x11-libs/libXaw ) )
-			)
-		)
-	)"
-
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	virtual/pkgconfig
-	gzip-el? ( app-arch/gzip )
-	pax_kernel? (
-		sys-apps/attr
-		sys-apps/paxctl
-	)"
-
-RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	!<app-editors/emacs-vcs-${PV}"
-
-EMACS_SUFFIX="${PN/emacs/emacs-${SLOT}}"
-SITEFILE="20${PN}-${SLOT}-gentoo.el"
-# FULL_VERSION keeps the full version number, which is needed in
-# order to determine some path information correctly for copy/move
-# operations later on
-FULL_VERSION="${PV%%_*}"
-S="${WORKDIR}/emacs-${FULL_VERSION}"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	EPATCH_SUFFIX=patch epatch
-	epatch_user
-
-	# Fix filename reference in redirected man page
-	sed -i -e "/^\\.so/s/etags/&-${EMACS_SUFFIX}/" doc/man/ctags.1 \
-		|| die "unable to sed ctags.1"
-
-	AT_M4DIR=m4 eautoreconf
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	strip-flags
-	filter-flags -pie					#526948
-
-	if use sh; then
-		replace-flags "-O[1-9]" -O0		#262359
-	elif use ia64; then
-		replace-flags "-O[2-9]" -O1		#325373
-	else
-		replace-flags "-O[3-9]" -O2
-	fi
-
-	local myconf
-
-	if use alsa; then
-		use sound || ewarn \
-			"USE flag \"alsa\" overrides \"-sound\"; enabling sound support."
-		myconf+=" --with-sound=alsa"
-	else
-		myconf+=" --with-sound=$(usex sound oss)"
-	fi
-
-	if use X; then
-		myconf+=" --with-x --without-ns"
-		myconf+=" $(use_with gconf)"
-		myconf+=" $(use_with gsettings)"
-		myconf+=" $(use_with toolkit-scroll-bars)"
-		myconf+=" $(use_with gif)"
-		myconf+=" $(use_with jpeg)"
-		myconf+=" $(use_with png)"
-		myconf+=" $(use_with svg rsvg)"
-		myconf+=" $(use_with tiff)"
-		myconf+=" $(use_with xpm)"
-		myconf+=" $(use_with imagemagick)"
-
-		if use xft; then
-			myconf+=" --with-xft"
-			myconf+=" $(use_with m17n-lib libotf)"
-			myconf+=" $(use_with m17n-lib m17n-flt)"
-		else
-			myconf+=" --without-xft"
-			myconf+=" --without-libotf --without-m17n-flt"
-			use m17n-lib && ewarn \
-				"USE flag \"m17n-lib\" has no effect if \"xft\" is not set."
-		fi
-
-		local f
-		if use gtk; then
-			einfo "Configuring to build with GIMP Toolkit (GTK+)"
-			while read line; do ewarn "${line}"; done <<-EOF
-				Your version of GTK+ will have problems with closing open
-				displays. This is no problem if you just use one display, but
-				if you use more than one and close one of them Emacs may crash.
-				See <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715>.
-				If you intend to use more than one display, then it is strongly
-				recommended that you compile Emacs with the Athena/Lucid or the
-				Motif toolkit instead.
-			EOF
-			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=$(usex gtk3 gtk3 gtk2)"
-			for f in motif Xaw3d athena; do
-				use ${f} && ewarn \
-					"USE flag \"${f}\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is set."
-			done
-		elif use motif; then
-			einfo "Configuring to build with Motif toolkit"
-			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=motif"
-			for f in Xaw3d athena; do
-				use ${f} && ewarn \
-					"USE flag \"${f}\" has no effect if \"motif\" is set."
-			done
-		elif use athena || use Xaw3d; then
-			einfo "Configuring to build with Athena/Lucid toolkit"
-			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=lucid $(use_with Xaw3d xaw3d)"
-		else
-			einfo "Configuring to build with no toolkit"
-			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=no"
-		fi
-	elif use aqua; then
-		einfo "Configuring to build with Nextstep (Cocoa) support"
-		myconf+=" --with-ns --disable-ns-self-contained"
-		myconf+=" --without-x"
-	else
-		myconf+=" --without-x --without-ns"
-	fi
-
-	# Save version information in the Emacs binary. It will be available
-	# in variable "system-configuration-options".
-	myconf+=" GENTOO_PACKAGE=${CATEGORY}/${PF}"
-
-	econf \
-		--program-suffix="-${EMACS_SUFFIX}" \
-		--infodir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/info/${EMACS_SUFFIX} \
-		--localstatedir="${EPREFIX}"/var \
-		--enable-locallisppath="${EPREFIX}/etc/emacs:${EPREFIX}${SITELISP}" \
-		--with-gameuser=":gamestat" \
-		--without-compress-install \
-		--with-file-notification=$(usev inotify || usev gfile || echo no) \
-		$(use_enable acl) \
-		$(use_with dbus) \
-		$(use_with gpm) \
-		$(use_with hesiod) \
-		$(use_with kerberos) $(use_with kerberos kerberos5) \
-		$(use_with libxml2 xml2) \
-		$(use_with selinux) \
-		$(use_with ssl gnutls) \
-		$(use_with wide-int) \
-		$(use_with zlib) \
-		${myconf}
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	export SANDBOX_ON=0			# for the unbelievers, see Bug #131505
-	emake
-}
-
-src_install () {
-	emake DESTDIR="${D}" NO_BIN_LINK=t install
-
-	mv "${ED}"/usr/bin/{emacs-${FULL_VERSION}-,}${EMACS_SUFFIX} \
-		|| die "moving emacs executable failed"
-	mv "${ED}"/usr/share/man/man1/{emacs-,}${EMACS_SUFFIX}.1 \
-		|| die "moving emacs man page failed"
-
-	# move info dir to avoid collisions with the dir file generated by portage
-	mv "${ED}"/usr/share/info/${EMACS_SUFFIX}/dir{,.orig} \
-		|| die "moving info dir failed"
-	touch "${ED}"/usr/share/info/${EMACS_SUFFIX}/.keepinfodir
-	docompress -x /usr/share/info/${EMACS_SUFFIX}/dir.orig
-
-	# avoid collision between slots, see bug #169033 e.g.
-	rm "${ED}"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/subdirs.el
-	rm -rf "${ED}"/usr/share/{applications,icons}
-	rm -rf "${ED}"/var
-
-	# remove unused <version>/site-lisp dir
-	rm -rf "${ED}"/usr/share/emacs/${FULL_VERSION}/site-lisp
-
-	# remove COPYING file (except for etc/COPYING used by describe-copying)
-	rm "${ED}"/usr/share/emacs/${FULL_VERSION}/lisp/COPYING
-
-	if use gzip-el; then
-		# compress .el files when a corresponding .elc exists
-		find "${ED}"/usr/share/emacs/${FULL_VERSION}/lisp -type f \
-			-name "*.elc" -print | sed 's/\.elc$/.el/' | xargs gzip -9n
-		assert "gzip .el failed"
-	fi
-
-	local cdir
-	if use source; then
-		cdir="/usr/share/emacs/${FULL_VERSION}/src"
-		insinto "${cdir}"
-		# This is not meant to install all the source -- just the
-		# C source you might find via find-function
-		doins src/*.{c,h,m}
-	elif has installsources ${FEATURES}; then
-		cdir="/usr/src/debug/${CATEGORY}/${PF}/${S#"${WORKDIR}/"}/src"
-	fi
-
-	sed -e "${cdir:+#}/^Y/d" -e "s/^[XY]//" >"${T}/${SITEFILE}" <<-EOF
-	X
-	;;; ${PN}-${SLOT} site-lisp configuration
-	X
-	(when (string-match "\\\\\`${FULL_VERSION//./\\\\.}\\\\>" emacs-version)
-	Y  (setq find-function-C-source-directory
-	Y	"${EPREFIX}${cdir}")
-	X  (let ((path (getenv "INFOPATH"))
-	X	(dir "${EPREFIX}/usr/share/info/${EMACS_SUFFIX}")
-	X	(re "\\\\\`${EPREFIX}/usr/share/info\\\\>"))
-	X    (and path
-	X	 ;; move Emacs Info dir before anything else in /usr/share/info
-	X	 (let* ((p (cons nil (split-string path ":" t))) (q p))
-	X	   (while (and (cdr q) (not (string-match re (cadr q))))
-	X	     (setq q (cdr q)))
-	X	   (setcdr q (cons dir (delete dir (cdr q))))
-	X	   (setq Info-directory-list (prune-directory-list (cdr p)))))))
-	EOF
-	elisp-site-file-install "${T}/${SITEFILE}" || die
-
-	dodoc README BUGS
-
-	if use aqua; then
-		dodir /Applications/Gentoo
-		rm -rf "${ED}"/Applications/Gentoo/Emacs${EMACS_SUFFIX#emacs}.app
-		mv nextstep/Emacs.app \
-			"${ED}"/Applications/Gentoo/Emacs${EMACS_SUFFIX#emacs}.app || die
-	fi
-
-	DOC_CONTENTS="You can set the version to be started by /usr/bin/emacs
-		through the Emacs eselect module, which also redirects man and info
-		pages. Therefore, several Emacs versions can be installed at the
-		same time. \"man emacs.eselect\" for details.
-		\\n\\nIf you upgrade from Emacs version 24.2 or earlier, then it is
-		strongly recommended that you use app-admin/emacs-updater to rebuild
-		all byte-compiled elisp files of the installed Emacs packages."
-	use X && DOC_CONTENTS+="\\n\\nYou need to install some fonts for Emacs.
-		Installing media-fonts/font-adobe-{75,100}dpi on the X server's
-		machine would satisfy basic Emacs requirements under X11.
-		See also https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xft_support_for_GNU_Emacs
-		for how to enable anti-aliased fonts."
-	use aqua && DOC_CONTENTS+="\\n\\nEmacs${EMACS_SUFFIX#emacs}.app is in
-		\"${EPREFIX}/Applications/Gentoo\". You may want to copy or symlink
-		it into /Applications by yourself."
-	readme.gentoo_create_doc
-}
-
-pkg_preinst() {
-	# move Info dir file to correct name
-	local infodir=/usr/share/info/${EMACS_SUFFIX} f
-	if [[ -f ${ED}${infodir}/dir.orig ]]; then
-		mv "${ED}"${infodir}/dir{.orig,} || die "moving info dir failed"
-	elif [[ -d "${ED}"${infodir} ]]; then
-		# this should not happen in EAPI 4
-		ewarn "Regenerating Info directory index in ${infodir} ..."
-		rm -f "${ED}"${infodir}/dir{,.*}
-		for f in "${ED}"${infodir}/*; do
-			if [[ ${f##*/} != *-[0-9]* && -e ${f} ]]; then
-				install-info --info-dir="${ED}"${infodir} "${f}" \
-					|| die "install-info failed"
-			fi
-		done
-	fi
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	elisp-site-regen
-
-	local pvr
-	for pvr in ${REPLACING_VERSIONS}; do
-		[[ ${pvr%%[-_]*} = 24.[12] ]] && FORCE_PRINT_ELOG=1
-	done
-	readme.gentoo_print_elog
-
-	if use livecd; then
-		# force an update of the emacs symlink for the livecd/dvd,
-		# because some microemacs packages set it with USE=livecd
-		eselect emacs update
-	elif [[ $(readlink "${EROOT}"/usr/bin/emacs) = ${EMACS_SUFFIX} ]]; then
-		# refresh symlinks in case any installed files have changed
-		eselect emacs set ${EMACS_SUFFIX}
-	else
-		eselect emacs update ifunset
-	fi
-}
-
-pkg_postrm() {
-	elisp-site-regen
-	eselect emacs update ifunset
-}