diff --git a/net-misc/xmrig/Manifest b/net-misc/xmrig/Manifest
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@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST xmrig-6.12.1.tar.gz 1626568 BLAKE2B e43b25af131911f112dc54e213175ee10a0a6c5f4f8bde339bdd6e39df0dc0c8a058fd30c20994b52b68fe20539b8b95d714caeb94f699b4ba663d3fc3992c71 SHA512 813daf7f7363e60059290caddd7c85df90fd35148de2762b02c287a28e82e8a13dcfc9d514c4a4932d85049532c240eacc0201e6c8fede9b6bb26fa9505841b0
diff --git a/net-misc/xmrig/metadata.xml b/net-misc/xmrig/metadata.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="person">
-    <email>telans@posteo.de</email>
-    <name>Theo Anderson</name>
-  </maintainer>
-  <longdescription lang="en">
-    XMRig High performance, open source, cross platform RandomX,
-    CryptoNight, KawPow, AstroBWT, and Argon2 CPU/GPU miner.
-  </longdescription>
-  <upstream>
-    <remote-id type="github">xmrig/xmrig</remote-id>
-  </upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/net-misc/xmrig/xmrig-6.12.1.ebuild b/net-misc/xmrig/xmrig-6.12.1.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-inherit cmake optfeature
-
-DESCRIPTION="RandomX, CryptoNight, KawPow, AstroBWT, and Argon2 CPU/GPU miner"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3+"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~x86"
-IUSE="+ssl"
-
-DEPEND="
-	dev-libs/libuv:=
-	sys-apps/hwloc:=
-	ssl? ( dev-libs/openssl:= )
-"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	cmake_src_prepare
-	sed -i '/notls/d' cmake/OpenSSL.cmake || die
-	sed -i 's/1;/0;/g' src/donate.h || die
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	local mycmakeargs=(
-		# TODO: Create expanded USE flag for all of the PoW algos.
-		-DWITH_TLS=$(usex ssl)
-		# TODO: opencl USE flag.
-		-DWITH_OPENCL=OFF
-		# TODO: cuda USE flag.
-		-DWITH_CUDA=OFF
-	)
-
-	cmake_src_configure
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	dobin "${BUILD_DIR}/xmrig"
-	dodoc -r doc/*.md
-	einstalldocs
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	elog "Increase the vm.nr_hugepages sysctl value so that XMRig can allocate with huge pages."
-	optfeature "CPU specific performance tweaks" sys-apps/msr-tools
-}