diff --git a/dev-ruby/nokogiri/Manifest b/dev-ruby/nokogiri/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 23ea09a33..000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/nokogiri/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-AUX nokogiri-1.4.4-libxml-2.7.8.patch 729 RMD160 06a660ef03645ca35cf93fb5aa5ec46a5ce0da34 SHA1 9bcd7a6fbefc75db8691200e9714460864a51ed3 SHA256 56fbfb502adbb04dc77373a2d7c3708cf7b7cf21f0419f2fc6ff40dc6fa56321
-DIST nokogiri-1.5.2.tgz 1988760 RMD160 5acd8d4bbf8916f53237b102db21049510539e73 SHA1 fb75adc5fe4ea7e9cf6defdd634dc7614b2da045 SHA256 d977baa45baa700c107a25eefea6e4b4b2771dd05204d734eee2dab9d69b1dbc
-EBUILD nokogiri-1.5.2.ebuild 3224 RMD160 b7e6d61c51551dc2054593c42aa6b3fc9f840d05 SHA1 6fd077bf729e72a3efdaa15324b3b630745e9527 SHA256 69a34ed580f5c7a1683e0949c1758d16781d19bd91f1a9d7de36f40a53133a8a
diff --git a/dev-ruby/nokogiri/files/nokogiri-1.4.4-libxml-2.7.8.patch b/dev-ruby/nokogiri/files/nokogiri-1.4.4-libxml-2.7.8.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ba472d30a..000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/nokogiri/files/nokogiri-1.4.4-libxml-2.7.8.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-commit abe249425bef0356f54408b89c9f376c62862e87
-Author: Mike Dalessio <mike@csa.net>
-Date:   Wed Dec 8 10:23:52 2010 -0500
-
-    hey now. this test was failing for LIBXML > 2.7.7. sigh.
-
-diff --git a/test/html/test_element_description.rb b/test/html/test_element_description.rb
-index 2111cde..cfa9ca6 100644
---- a/test/html/test_element_description.rb
-+++ b/test/html/test_element_description.rb
-@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ module Nokogiri
- 
-       def test_subelements
-         sub_elements = ElementDescription['body'].sub_elements
--        if Nokogiri::LIBXML_VERSION == '2.7.7'
-+        if Nokogiri::LIBXML_VERSION >= '2.7.7'
-           assert_equal 65, sub_elements.length
-         else
-           assert_equal 61, sub_elements.length
diff --git a/dev-ruby/nokogiri/nokogiri-1.5.2.ebuild b/dev-ruby/nokogiri/nokogiri-1.5.2.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 1174e9214..000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/nokogiri/nokogiri-1.5.2.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,110 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-ruby/nokogiri/nokogiri-1.5.0-r2.ebuild,v 1.4 2012/03/02 09:51:03 naota Exp $
-
-EAPI=4
-
-USE_RUBY="ruby18 ruby19 ree18 jruby"
-
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_TASK_DOC="docs"
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_DOCDIR="doc"
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="CHANGELOG.rdoc CHANGELOG.ja.rdoc README.rdoc README.ja.rdoc"
-
-inherit ruby-fakegem eutils multilib
-
-DESCRIPTION="Nokogiri is an HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser."
-HOMEPAGE="http://nokogiri.rubyforge.org/"
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/tarball/v${PV} -> ${P}.tgz"
-RUBY_S="tenderlove-nokogiri-*"
-
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86 ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
-SLOT="0"
-IUSE=""
-
-RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	dev-libs/libxml2
-	dev-libs/libxslt"
-DEPEND="${DEPEND}
-	dev-libs/libxml2
-	dev-libs/libxslt"
-
-# The tests require _minitest_, not the virtual; what is shipped with
-# Ruby 1.9 is *not* enough, unfortunately
-ruby_add_bdepend "
-	dev-ruby/rake-compiler
-	dev-ruby/rexical
-	dev-ruby/hoe
-	dev-ruby/rdoc
-	dev-ruby/racc
-	test? ( dev-ruby/minitest )"
-
-all_ruby_prepare() {
-	sed -i \
-		-e '/tasks\/cross_compile/s:^:#:' \
-		-e '/:test.*prerequisites/s:^:#:' \
-		Rakefile || die
-	# Remove the cross compilation options since they interfere with
-	# native building.
-	sed -i -e 's/cross_compile  = true/cross_compile = false/' Rakefile || die
-	sed -i -e '/cross_config_options/d' Rakefile || die
-}
-
-each_ruby_prepare() {
-	# These test exclusions should be limited to the specific tests, but
-	# we are overdue with re-adding jruby so we use the big hammer for now.
-	case ${RUBY} in
-		*ruby19)
-			# Remove test file with failing tests related to encodings.
-			rm test/xml/test_node_encoding.rb || die
-			;;
-		*jruby)
-			# Remove test files with broken tests,
-			# https://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/issues/496
-			rm test/html/sax/test_parser.rb test/html/test_document_encoding.rb test/xml/sax/test_push_parser.rb test/xslt/test_exception_handling.rb || die
-			;;
-		*)
-			;;
-	esac
-}
-
-each_ruby_configure() {
-	case ${RUBY} in
-		*jruby)
-			;;
-		*)
-			${RUBY} -Cext/${PN} extconf.rb \
-				--with-zlib-include="${EPREFIX}"/usr/include \
-				--with-zlib-lib="${EPREFIX}"/$(get_libdir) \
-				--with-iconv-include="${EPREFIX}"/usr/include \
-				--with-iconv-lib="${EPREFIX}"/$(get_libdir) \
-				--with-xml2-include="${EPREFIX}"/usr/include/libxml2 \
-				--with-xml2-lib="${EPREFIX}"/usr/$(get_libdir) \
-				--with-xslt-dir="${EPREFIX}"/usr \
-				--with-iconvlib=iconv \
-				|| die "extconf.rb failed"
-			;;
-	esac
-}
-
-each_ruby_compile() {
-	case ${RUBY} in
-		*jruby)
-			${RUBY} -S rake compile || die
-			;;
-		*)
-			if ! [[ -f lib/nokogiri/css/tokenizer.rb ]]; then
-				${RUBY} -S rake lib/nokogiri/css/tokenizer.rb || die "rexical failed"
-			fi
-
-			if ! [[ -f lib/nokogiri/css/parser.rb ]]; then
-				${RUBY} -S rake lib/nokogiri/css/parser.rb || die "racc failed"
-			fi
-
-			emake -Cext/${PN} \
-				CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fPIC" \
-				archflag="${LDFLAGS}" || die "make extension failed"
-			cp -l ext/${PN}/${PN}$(get_modname) lib/${PN}/ || die
-			;;
-	esac
-}