diff --git a/dev-python/nltk/Manifest b/dev-python/nltk/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 1722b1dfb..000000000
--- a/dev-python/nltk/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
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-DIST nltk-2.0.4.tar.gz 955978 SHA256 a554d6b9c5c7c8b597a090d8848a6f78c6fc4665ae43c9a6a6d6a5b207d98c65 SHA512 1a1923f8819016926ad37337077a87782b1b244eb52c93b0b977946a3549a82b8b0cc4eb886f801d283b6df6f55fa8020db435dae9303371cda1dc1f8c40bc88 WHIRLPOOL b0affed720034261de343c4f7a09cc1a977e695ddeb7cd592d3d7b7c960728025336b8ece5667dda090593498d33d4e64b05b1bd3d8336e0f487d5ff2da82f80
-DIST nltk-3.0.3.tar.gz 1011266 SHA256 28d6175984445b9cdcc719f36701f034320edbecb78b69a37d1edc876843ea93 SHA512 b058642670166bff538e2c1c417ffb2e57a217a9f3a056475ad47ffa222df7237bfb4ac00a58952dc6f79f12a32e3a40bf53a96262a4b3caced64c2c09abdfc3 WHIRLPOOL 4201a7d6219f437b8e8df2b7c88ae48578e69825c4fe067d777c92b24bd819172b6a831d2ed51de07a3b52bda20f5c559e2da0dcfde58cafca57c811bbb23cd2
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diff --git a/dev-python/nltk/files/fix-newer-setuptools.patch b/dev-python/nltk/files/fix-newer-setuptools.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 58b8eedbe..000000000
--- a/dev-python/nltk/files/fix-newer-setuptools.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-From efe85968bb23e3afdcd331293f2c2588b1590091 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Mikhail Korobov <kmike84@gmail.com>
-Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 02:06:21 +0500
-Subject: [PATCH] Fixed installation with recent setuptools.
-
-These lines were introduced here: https://github.com/nltk/nltk/commit/1ecbd2edc32db24b4e6c7dd8555d0b89c668f041
-It seems they fix an issue with .svn folders. We use git now,
-there are no .svn folders.
-
-See also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1129180/how-can-i-make-setuptools-ignore-subversion-inventory
----
- setup.py | 7 -------
- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
-index 3ec0949..079bcf3 100644
---- a/setup.py
-+++ b/setup.py
-@@ -29,13 +29,6 @@
- # setuptools
- from setuptools import setup, find_packages
- 
--#
--# Prevent setuptools from trying to add extra files to the source code
--# manifest by scanning the version control system for its contents.
--#
--from setuptools.command import sdist
--del sdist.finders[:]
--
- setup(
-     name = "nltk",
-     description = "Natural Language Toolkit",
diff --git a/dev-python/nltk/metadata.xml b/dev-python/nltk/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3e7fe5a2e..000000000
--- a/dev-python/nltk/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-  <herd>proxy-maintainers</herd>
-  <maintainer>
-    <email>clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com</email>
-    <name>LABBE Corentin (Montjoie)</name>
-    <description>Maintainer. Assign bugs to him</description>
-  </maintainer>
-  <herd>python</herd>
-  <use>
-    <flag name="numpy">Use numpy for the saved word tokenizer</flag>
-  </use>
-  <upstream>
-    <remote-id type="google-code">nltk</remote-id>
-    <remote-id type="pypi">nltk</remote-id>
-  </upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/nltk/nltk-2.0.4.ebuild b/dev-python/nltk/nltk-2.0.4.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 9350d26db..000000000
--- a/dev-python/nltk/nltk-2.0.4.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Id$
-
-EAPI="5"
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
-PYTHON_REQ_USE="tk?,xml(+)"
-
-inherit distutils-r1 eutils
-
-DESCRIPTION="Natural Language Toolkit"
-SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
-HOMEPAGE="http://nltk.org/"
-
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~x86-solaris"
-IUSE="numpy tk"
-
-RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	numpy? ( dev-python/numpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
-	dev-python/pyyaml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
-
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	app-arch/unzip"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/fix-newer-setuptools.patch
-	distutils-r1_src_prepare
-}