diff --git a/perl-core/MIME-Base64/MIME-Base64-3.140.0-r1.ebuild b/perl-core/MIME-Base64/MIME-Base64-3.140.0-r1.ebuild
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index 026264b30415a..0000000000000
--- a/perl-core/MIME-Base64/MIME-Base64-3.140.0-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=5
-
-MODULE_AUTHOR=GAAS
-MODULE_VERSION=3.14
-inherit perl-module
-
-DESCRIPTION="A base64/quoted-printable encoder/decoder Perl Modules"
-
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS=""
-IUSE=""
-
-SRC_TEST="do"
diff --git a/perl-core/MIME-Base64/Manifest b/perl-core/MIME-Base64/Manifest
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index 05c30094bf4be..0000000000000
--- a/perl-core/MIME-Base64/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST MIME-Base64-3.14.tar.gz 18193 BLAKE2B ec7b3231faf8d2fd735a7a168111b3984fe7f43ae9b8885b52169a821e5fa48e524b59cc45b314f151767b75b40359f4e9a0b79e994143dc66fb319eb5371ca0 SHA512 cc3c011479a0ed27ed38074a9a0288b674b61d85ee6d0d633083d9e86d9702e403f9cc6ac61a214f2b9be0ec060f152f185785b0528a689108e37e417ec1079c
diff --git a/perl-core/MIME-Base64/metadata.xml b/perl-core/MIME-Base64/metadata.xml
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index 64fbb52d90719..0000000000000
--- a/perl-core/MIME-Base64/metadata.xml
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@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="project">
-    <email>perl@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Gentoo Perl Project</name>
-  </maintainer>
-  <upstream>
-    <remote-id type="cpan">MIME-Base64</remote-id>
-    <remote-id type="cpan-module">MIME::Base64</remote-id>
-    <remote-id type="cpan-module">MIME::QuotedPrint</remote-id>
-  </upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>