diff --git a/media-libs/tiff/Manifest b/media-libs/tiff/Manifest
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index 087b50279..000000000
--- a/media-libs/tiff/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-DIST tiff-3.9.4.tar.gz 1436968 RMD160 3e0a74b6294297c16fb983ad68056a1dfbbdb1de SHA1 a4e32d55afbbcabd0391a9c89995e8e8a19961de SHA256 67b76d075fb74f7cb32e7e4b217701674755fe6cee0f463b259a753fce691da6
-EBUILD tiff-3.9.4-r1.ebuild 1880 RMD160 bb8805b9aac559a208b5dfcd022d5126c1047c9c SHA1 fb6145e6d8f88df2529be43a7fd3b081ad88161a SHA256 302c97214c499d587617298f925343ff7c4af5be24c28ac673d0dd5f1e5275c8
-MISC metadata.xml 448 RMD160 0419f91f1f20efdc94d3894f6a4fc6471f22d0a1 SHA1 d743d16f4afb124bbe57a45b217b92f71b515f20 SHA256 61b04082cf0ccec1f58146fab271f88e56009277edee28b3f297eafb0562f4c9
diff --git a/media-libs/tiff/metadata.xml b/media-libs/tiff/metadata.xml
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index afea603b6..000000000
--- a/media-libs/tiff/metadata.xml
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@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-<herd>graphics</herd>
-<maintainer>
-  <email>nerdboy@gentoo.org</email>
-  <name>Steve Arnold</name>
-  <description>Primary Maintainer</description>
-</maintainer>
-<longdescription>TIFF image library and tools, mostly for scanner and fax
- support, but also used by GIS and other imaging tools.</longdescription>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/media-libs/tiff/tiff-3.9.4-r1.ebuild b/media-libs/tiff/tiff-3.9.4-r1.ebuild
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index 2aba959c9..000000000
--- a/media-libs/tiff/tiff-3.9.4-r1.ebuild
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-# Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Header: $
-
-EAPI=3
-inherit libtool multilib
-
-DESCRIPTION="Library for manipulation of TIFF (Tag Image File Format) images (compatibility package)"
-HOMEPAGE="http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/"
-SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="as-is"
-SLOT="3"
-KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86 ~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd ~x64-freebsd ~x86-freebsd ~x86-interix ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~sparc-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
-IUSE="+cxx jbig jpeg static-libs zlib"
-
-DEPEND="jpeg? ( virtual/jpeg )
-	jbig? ( media-libs/jbigkit )
-	zlib? ( sys-libs/zlib )
-	!<media-libs/tiff-3.9.4-r1"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
-	>=media-libs/tiff-4.0"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	elibtoolize
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	econf \
-		--disable-dependency-tracking \
-		$(use_enable static-libs static) \
-		$(use_enable cxx) \
-		$(use_enable zlib) \
-		$(use_enable jpeg) \
-		$(use_enable jbig) \
-		--without-x \
-		--with-docdir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/doc/${PF}
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install || die
-	# drop unseless stuff for a compat lib
-	rm "${D}"/usr/bin -rf || die
-	rm "${D}"/usr/share -rf || die
-	rm "${D}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/libtiff.{a,la,so} -rf || die
-	rm "${D}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/libtiffxx.{a,la,so} -rf || die
-	dodir /usr/include/tiff3
-	mv "${D}"/usr/include/*.h* "${D}"/usr/include/tiff3/ || die9
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	if use jbig; then
-		echo
-		elog "JBIG support is intended for Hylafax fax compression, so we"
-		elog "really need more feedback in other areas (most testing has"
-		elog "been done with fax).  Be sure to recompile anything linked"
-		elog "against tiff if you rebuild it with jbig support."
-		echo
-	fi
-	elog "This is a compatibility package providing old libtiff-3 libraries"
-	echo
-}