diff --git a/net-im/telegram-cli/metadata.xml b/net-im/telegram-cli/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1bc389d1b..000000000
--- a/net-im/telegram-cli/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="person">
-    <email>mva@gentoo.org</email>
-    <description>Also, you can find me on IRC (Libera.Chat) as mva, or in Telegram as @mva_name</description>
-    <name>Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov</name>
-  </maintainer>
-  <use>
-    <flag name="lua">Enable Lua scripting</flag>
-    <flag name="json">Enable JSON support</flag>
-    <flag name="python">Enable Python support</flag>
-  </use>
-  <upstream>
-    <remote-id type="github">vysheng/tg</remote-id>
-  </upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/net-im/telegram-cli/telegram-cli-9999.ebuild b/net-im/telegram-cli/telegram-cli-9999.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 39882ed0d..000000000
--- a/net-im/telegram-cli/telegram-cli-9999.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-LUA_COMPAT=( lua{5-{1..4},jit} )
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..12} )
-
-inherit lua-single python-single-r1 git-r3 flag-o-matic
-
-EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/vysheng/tg.git"
-EGIT_BRANCH="master"
-
-IUSE="+lua +json +python"
-DESCRIPTION="Command line interface client for Telegram"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/vysheng/tg"
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-
-REQUIRED_USE="lua? ( ${LUA_REQUIRED_USE} ) python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
-RDEPEND="
-	sys-libs/zlib:=
-	sys-libs/readline:=
-	dev-libs/libconfig:=
-	dev-libs/openssl:=
-	dev-libs/libevent:=
-	lua? ( ${LUA_DEPS} )
-	json? ( dev-libs/jansson )
-	python? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )
-"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	use lua && lua-single_pkg_setup
-	use python && python-single-r1_pkg_setup
-
-	eerror "This shit doesn't build anyway:"
-	eerror "-Werrors of many kinds,"
-	eerror "linking errors (tries to link from /lib on amd64),"
-	eerror "and so on"
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	local myeconfargs=();
-	myeconfargs+=($(use_enable lua liblua))
-	myeconfargs+=($(use_enable python))
-	myeconfargs+=($(use_enable json))
-
-	myeconfargs+=($(use lua && echo LUA_INCLUDE="$(lua_get_CFLAGS)"))
-	myeconfargs+=($(use lua && echo LUA_LIB="$(lua_get_LIBS)"))
-	myeconfargs+=($(use lua && echo LUA="${ELUA}"))
-
-	# append-cflags "-Wno-error=stringop-overread"
-	append-ldflags "-L/usr/$(get_libdir) -L/$(get_libdir)"
-	econf ${myeconfargs[@]}
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	dobin bin/telegram-cli
-
-	insinto /etc/telegram-cli/
-	newins tg-server.pub server.pub
-}