diff --git a/dev-util/xxd/Manifest b/dev-util/xxd/Manifest
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index 2f914f21a4..0000000000
--- a/dev-util/xxd/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-DIST xxd-9.1.0895.1 11406 BLAKE2B fab03736e2b20ae290221a8372fd9126de5e880034eb2e7fa5c1372faccbea056b97f068b46871c73db48fa23c1357eca2b5347faa70b5152fe85f503dd0c374 SHA512 2684da607150bd9790ba1e4a8b85690a75c30959d55577be946ec963820644b230b0d56e49883c823678e8fbd7ad3e1e3fff1da60fb35a41af0bfcf8f0f4b062
-DIST xxd-9.1.0895.c 33819 BLAKE2B d8adc2a0100a5403638f2522ee79c24ca3e29063dbc6a940fcc1f6fe30e5046224b4eea4a6cb063b367fc0dc96f1de7d272142a5aadb426336f72be4a5a995f5 SHA512 4b31b035e18408f122f85bc805c99c051fe0644b888f3df4af20d94ef1485ec0f44abcbdbaa34f7d002613a79f64b2f534e1dcbe92dcad4acae0ef1b114e3b33
diff --git a/dev-util/xxd/metadata.xml b/dev-util/xxd/metadata.xml
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--- a/dev-util/xxd/metadata.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="person">
-    <description>new maintainers welcome</description>
-    <name>Peter Levine</name>
-    <email>plevine457@gmail.com</email>
-  </maintainer>
-  <upstream>
-    <maintainer>
-      <name>Bram Moolenaar</name>
-      <email>Bram@vim.org</email>
-    </maintainer>
-    <bugs-to>https://github.com/vim/vim/issues</bugs-to>
-    <remote-id type="github">vim/vim</remote-id>
-  </upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-util/xxd/xxd-9.1.0895.ebuild b/dev-util/xxd/xxd-9.1.0895.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-inherit toolchain-funcs
-
-DESCRIPTION="Hexdump utility from vim"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.vim.org/"
-SRC_URI="
-	https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vim/vim/v${PV}/src/xxd/xxd.c
-		-> ${P}.c
-	https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vim/vim/v${PV}/runtime/doc/xxd.1
-		-> ${P}.1
-"
-
-S="${WORKDIR}"
-
-# Attribution in xxd.c differs from vim.
-LICENSE="GPL-2 MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-
-RDEPEND="!app-editors/vim-core"
-
-src_unpack() {
-	cp "${DISTDIR}"/${P}.c xxd.c || die "cp failed"
-	cp "${DISTDIR}"/${P}.1 xxd.1 || die "cp failed"
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	# Basically, what's in src/xxd/Makefile
-	"$(tc-getCC)" ${CFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS} -DUNIX \
-		-o xxd "${DISTDIR}"/${P}.c || die "compile failed"
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	dobin xxd
-	doman xxd.1
-}