diff --git a/dev-ruby/ruby-oci8/Manifest b/dev-ruby/ruby-oci8/Manifest
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index bc0d3b49b..000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/ruby-oci8/Manifest
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-DIST ruby-oci8-2.2.10.gem 279040 BLAKE2B 40c2f936e105a6f9465be176e373473d7d70b1ff2382242f1aa64962fe6284c64d6062d1dc5b28490d99b5ea4af59c4c8a865e163c56c5e27aa839a33436d577 SHA512 6c45514bc78ef5bc63f2a096b9c682cc6411a8c82fd81c6b4bf91ee3d8e2d597b07919c40a7c26d41fcc48cc311ed20d8db7a1644f0b87e325a2cf9d33b0f807
-DIST ruby-oci8-2.2.9.gem 336896 BLAKE2B 60fb88c4c1034f7ba1730095ba10a7232d46991dbf9f55b15bd757e22fe946980aa73d99535543391cd509fedf5c8163c4333f5092d64cfbbe74e5c7ceb7b90a SHA512 f6a7244c1173a03e40e3fa696ea1cf350687515d2d605264a9fab1d1cf44d5a6f39dcbf78291ae0e37e362da9351c545afc74f9c86fa2ec662e15a126b913290
diff --git a/dev-ruby/ruby-oci8/ruby-oci8-2.2.10.ebuild b/dev-ruby/ruby-oci8/ruby-oci8-2.2.10.ebuild
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index 72b8cf998..000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/ruby-oci8/ruby-oci8-2.2.10.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-USE_RUBY="ruby31 ruby32"
-
-inherit multilib ruby-fakegem
-
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="NEWS README.md ChangeLog"
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_RECIPE_DOC="rdoc"
-
-DESCRIPTION="A Ruby library for Oracle OCI8"
-HOMEPAGE="https://rubygems.org/gems/ruby-oci8/"
-
-LICENSE="Ruby"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE=""
-
-RDEPEND="dev-db/oracle-instantclient"
-DEPEND="dev-db/oracle-instantclient"
-
-EXT_DIR="ext/oci8"
-
-each_ruby_configure() {
-	# configure the native libraries
-	${RUBY} -C${EXT_DIR} extconf.rb --prefix="${D}/usr" || die "configure failed"
-}
-
-each_ruby_compile() {
-	# compile the native libraries
-	emake -C ${EXT_DIR} V=1 || die "could not compile native library"
-}
-
-each_ruby_install() {
-	# install the native libraries
-	emake -C ${EXT_DIR} install DESTDIR="${D}" || die "could not install native library"
-	# install the gem files
-	each_fakegem_install
-}
diff --git a/dev-ruby/ruby-oci8/ruby-oci8-2.2.9.ebuild b/dev-ruby/ruby-oci8/ruby-oci8-2.2.9.ebuild
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index 72b8cf998..000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/ruby-oci8/ruby-oci8-2.2.9.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-USE_RUBY="ruby31 ruby32"
-
-inherit multilib ruby-fakegem
-
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="NEWS README.md ChangeLog"
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_RECIPE_DOC="rdoc"
-
-DESCRIPTION="A Ruby library for Oracle OCI8"
-HOMEPAGE="https://rubygems.org/gems/ruby-oci8/"
-
-LICENSE="Ruby"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE=""
-
-RDEPEND="dev-db/oracle-instantclient"
-DEPEND="dev-db/oracle-instantclient"
-
-EXT_DIR="ext/oci8"
-
-each_ruby_configure() {
-	# configure the native libraries
-	${RUBY} -C${EXT_DIR} extconf.rb --prefix="${D}/usr" || die "configure failed"
-}
-
-each_ruby_compile() {
-	# compile the native libraries
-	emake -C ${EXT_DIR} V=1 || die "could not compile native library"
-}
-
-each_ruby_install() {
-	# install the native libraries
-	emake -C ${EXT_DIR} install DESTDIR="${D}" || die "could not install native library"
-	# install the gem files
-	each_fakegem_install
-}