diff --git a/dev-util/catalyst/catalyst-9999.ebuild b/dev-util/catalyst/catalyst-9999.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index bd47c7fe1..000000000
--- a/dev-util/catalyst/catalyst-9999.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Id$
-
-EAPI=5
-
-if [[ ${PV} == *9999* ]]; then
-	SRC_ECLASS="git-2"
-	EGIT_REPO_URI="git://anongit.gentoo.org/proj/catalyst.git"
-	EGIT_BRANCH="master"
-	#this is the last commit before the refactor broke bindist, cflags setting, and more
-	EGIT_COMMIT="ca8695e0239981fa7f31e0f3eef2fadf8778ddb4"
-	S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}"
-else
-	SRC_URI="mirror://gentoo/${P}.tar.bz2
-		https://dev.gentoo.org/~jmbsvicetto/distfiles/${P}.tar.bz2
-		https://dev.gentoo.org/~zerochaos/distfiles/${P}.tar.bz2"
-	KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86 ~x86-fbsd"
-fi
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
-
-inherit distutils-r1 multilib ${SRC_ECLASS}
-
-DESCRIPTION="Release metatool used for creating releases based on Gentoo Linux"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-IUSE="ccache doc kernel_linux"
-
-DEPEND="
-	app-text/asciidoc
-	>=dev-python/snakeoil-0.6.5
-"
-RDEPEND="
-	=dev-python/pydecomp-9999
-	app-arch/lbzip2
-	app-crypt/shash
-	app-arch/tar[xattr]
-	virtual/cdrtools
-	amd64? ( >=sys-boot/syslinux-3.72 )
-	ia64? ( sys-fs/dosfstools )
-	x86? ( >=sys-boot/syslinux-3.72 )
-	ccache? ( dev-util/ccache )
-	kernel_linux? ( app-misc/zisofs-tools >=sys-fs/squashfs-tools-2.1 )
-"
-
-python_prepare_all() {
-	python_export_best
-	echo VERSION="${PV}" "${PYTHON}" setup.py set_version
-	VERSION="${PV}" "${PYTHON}" setup.py set_version
-}
-
-python_compile_all() {
-	# build the man pages and docs
-	emake
-}
-
-python_install_all(){
-	distutils-r1_python_install_all
-	if use doc; then
-		dodoc files/HOWTO.html files/docbook-xsl.css
-	fi
-}
diff --git a/dev-util/catalyst/metadata.xml b/dev-util/catalyst/metadata.xml
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index b995b730a..000000000
--- a/dev-util/catalyst/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer>
-    <email>zerochaos@gentoo.org</email>
-  </maintainer>
-  <use>
-    <flag name="ccache">Enables ccache support</flag>
-  </use>
-</pkgmetadata>