diff --git a/virtual/emacs/emacs-23.ebuild b/virtual/emacs/emacs-23.ebuild
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index 106e7ff151d4b..0000000000000
--- a/virtual/emacs/emacs-23.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-DESCRIPTION="Virtual for GNU Emacs"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 ~sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x86-macos"
-
-RDEPEND="app-editors/emacs:23"
diff --git a/virtual/emacs/emacs-24.ebuild b/virtual/emacs/emacs-24.ebuild
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index 78f83cab5b93c..0000000000000
--- a/virtual/emacs/emacs-24.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-DESCRIPTION="Virtual for GNU Emacs"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos"
-
-RDEPEND="app-editors/emacs:24"
diff --git a/virtual/emacs/emacs-25.ebuild b/virtual/emacs/emacs-25.ebuild
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index a03070bfadd6d..0000000000000
--- a/virtual/emacs/emacs-25.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-DESCRIPTION="Virtual for GNU Emacs"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos"
-
-RDEPEND="app-editors/emacs:25"
diff --git a/virtual/emacs/emacs-26-r2.ebuild b/virtual/emacs/emacs-26-r2.ebuild
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index 7dc33858c7bc0..0000000000000
--- a/virtual/emacs/emacs-26-r2.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-DESCRIPTION="Virtual for GNU Emacs"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv s390 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos"
-
-RDEPEND=">=app-editors/emacs-26.1:*"
diff --git a/virtual/emacs/metadata.xml b/virtual/emacs/metadata.xml
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index c438baf3b3261..0000000000000
--- a/virtual/emacs/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-<maintainer type="project">
-  <email>gnu-emacs@gentoo.org</email>
-  <name>Gentoo GNU Emacs project</name>
-</maintainer>
-</pkgmetadata>