diff --git a/dev-util/trinity/Manifest b/dev-util/trinity/Manifest
index 8e0ae95bb9f67..8a55880f35951 100644
--- a/dev-util/trinity/Manifest
+++ b/dev-util/trinity/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST trinity-1.7.tar.xz 195488 BLAKE2B a2efd5fa2dd9ae40e943d96b2ae9232e292bb5cd41a350813a137a5910cf308a06d4e0b1be37e2ab8dc6325443101b6d956a593a778d9a7128e086ebbf6f2b61 SHA512 bb702ec79494591e04c74279e39d6dd0c5779f7cb2696c306c94bee3a8aefb524e369674daadf02f70b58dbb19ad5699d2c331bc4c9089046d2214403a95ba87
 DIST trinity-1.8.tar.xz 213984 BLAKE2B 56f664023e2bc3648e941e4a3cb20e450cdcad3556289e201513d1755267eb013da2be035e81c87b3f1d1b0b1e12cb041c6bb345f7a84ee4c5c12f20a8e87f55 SHA512 686076dab2346cf9b5d8a20b14db31f460a352fa72eeadbe005a7423941918f5afef08b4987bb68cbbf4218d0cb620adb85f8036294d8df5ab5262e0031a44e4
diff --git a/dev-util/trinity/files/trinity-1.7-cflags.patch b/dev-util/trinity/files/trinity-1.7-cflags.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index accdae374bfa3..0000000000000
--- a/dev-util/trinity/files/trinity-1.7-cflags.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
-index c77d1f9..b970d08 100644
---- a/Makefile
-+++ b/Makefile
-@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ endif
- CC := $(CROSS_COMPILE)$(CC)
- LD := $(CROSS_COMPILE)$(LD)
- 
--CFLAGS += -Wall -Wextra -g -O2 -I. -Iinclude/ -Wimplicit -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D__linux__
-+CFLAGS ?= -g -O2 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
-+CFLAGS += -Wall -Wextra -I. -Iinclude/ -Wimplicit -D_GNU_SOURCE -D__linux__
- 
- CFLAGS += $(shell if $(CC) -std=gnu11 -S -o /dev/null -xc /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo "-std=gnu11"; else echo "-std=gnu99"; fi)
- 
diff --git a/dev-util/trinity/trinity-1.7.ebuild b/dev-util/trinity/trinity-1.7.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index a25cbb887f2f2..0000000000000
--- a/dev-util/trinity/trinity-1.7.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-inherit toolchain-funcs
-
-DESCRIPTION="A Linux system call fuzz tester"
-HOMEPAGE="http://codemonkey.org.uk/projects/trinity/"
-SRC_URI="http://codemonkey.org.uk/projects/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE="examples"
-
-# We need newer headers to avoid compilation failures in the BPF stuff.
-DEPEND="app-arch/xz-utils
-	>=sys-kernel/linux-headers-4.8"
-
-PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}/${P}-cflags.patch" )
-
-src_configure() {
-	tc-export CC
-	default
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	# Enable a verbose (i.e. not quiet) build.
-	emake V=1
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	dobin "${PN}"
-	dodoc Documentation/* README
-
-	if use examples ; then
-		exeinto "/usr/share/doc/${PF}/scripts"
-		doexe scripts/*
-		docompress -x "/usr/share/doc/${PF}/scripts"
-	fi
-}