diff --git a/dev-ruby/facter/Manifest b/dev-ruby/facter/Manifest
index dd8e4c87b232e..948becfca0101 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/facter/Manifest
+++ b/dev-ruby/facter/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-DIST facter-3.14.16.tar.gz 407315 BLAKE2B f9637841bd2c1d369d262c77876f08bb248f6a98e0fcb10573c872d521473790ba6eaa8dfcd6a8f0da2becd2f10c2bc7fbfde0d3a44f6a3d38c9e5f363e27e66 SHA512 3adcb7c3ce90a9cb71486c5d86eeaf1f0794194f51faf149052333d2f55a8a8fbe1e5772ecf9a0ed53196cfe732effeb383a42a43942a7803aa8b27e23939d23
 DIST facter-3.14.17.tar.gz 409415 BLAKE2B 5884d1244ee869b1e8880bb243996be5a0377adcbcc7e02ccd94a98f3a98d700ad129a457dcddcc3aeae6027fb818032331ce5690019fe7186e8deb9b022430d SHA512 109a7748d883748c516ff7262c7eb589f3c7321edc3882aad242f6fece566d1e6e81f340f3dbb3a7fed16c528ba0da8769984c394178efdd447f10de1841ff53
 DIST facter-3.14.18.tar.gz 409243 BLAKE2B 6d11498ecd82910ab82ec9674fbe7cf8d87f76f47dc6bf1a25c6138d498ad0c1d47ae5b2cb67fb092892e29279ff3263e2d025ff1317e4fb428105c943ee11e3 SHA512 537696324fd1ea653019fe3febdd168f40155d120bb0f9b899711c04f8252166731ab3530e2f03c01606e3549db3726e146b00781ac6ab5383f5ba2ce1e74d3f
diff --git a/dev-ruby/facter/facter-3.14.16-r1.ebuild b/dev-ruby/facter/facter-3.14.16-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 663babbeabf9d..0000000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/facter/facter-3.14.16-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,99 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-USE_RUBY="ruby24 ruby25 ruby26 ruby27"
-
-# git-r3 goes after ruby-ng so that it overrides src_unpack properly
-inherit cmake ruby-ng
-
-DESCRIPTION="A cross-platform ruby library for retrieving facts from operating systems"
-HOMEPAGE="http://www.puppetlabs.com/puppet/related-projects/facter/"
-
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="0"
-IUSE="test"
-if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]] ; then
-	inherit git-r3
-	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter.git"
-	EGIT_BRANCH="master"
-else
-	[[ "${PV}" = *_rc* ]] || \
-	KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc x86"
-	SRC_URI="https://github.com/puppetlabs/${PN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-fi
-
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-ruby_add_bdepend "test? ( dev-ruby/rake dev-ruby/rspec:2 dev-ruby/mocha:0.14 )"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	>=dev-cpp/cpp-hocon-0.2.1:=
-	>=dev-libs/leatherman-1.0.0:=
-	dev-libs/openssl:0=
-	sys-apps/util-linux
-	app-emulation/virt-what
-	net-misc/curl
-	dev-libs/boost:=[nls]
-	>=dev-cpp/yaml-cpp-0.5.1
-	!<app-admin/puppet-4.0.0"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-
-# restore ${S} and override all phases exported by ruby-ng.eclass
-S="${WORKDIR}/${P}"
-
-PATCHES=(
-	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-3.14.6-fix-static-libcpp-hocon.patch
-	# be explicit about the version of rspec we test with
-	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-3.14.8-explicit-rspec-2.patch
-)
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	ruby-ng_pkg_setup
-}
-
-src_unpack() {
-	default
-
-	if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]] ; then
-		git-r3_src_unpack
-	fi
-}
-
-src_prepare() {
-	cmake_src_prepare
-}
-
-each_ruby_configure() {
-	# hack for correct calculation of relative path from facter.rb to
-	# libfacter.so
-	my_ruby_sitelibdir=$(ruby_rbconfig_value 'sitelibdir')
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	ruby-ng_src_configure
-
-	local mycmakeargs=(
-		-DRUBY_LIB_INSTALL=${my_ruby_sitelibdir}
-		-DBLKID_LIBRARYDIR="${EPREFIX}/$(get_libdir)"
-	)
-	cmake_src_configure
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	addpredict /proc/self/oom_score_adj
-	cmake_src_compile
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	cmake_src_test
-}
-
-each_ruby_install() {
-	doruby "${BUILD_DIR}"/lib/facter.rb
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	cmake_src_install
-	ruby-ng_src_install
-}