diff --git a/syntax/Makefile.am b/syntax/Makefile.am
index 4c5bce37..d31e2399 100644
--- a/syntax/Makefile.am
+++ b/syntax/Makefile.am
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ nobase_pkgdata_DATA = \
 		extra/ada.nanorc \
 		extra/debian.nanorc \
 		extra/fortran.nanorc \
-		extra/gentoo.nanorc \
 		extra/haskell.nanorc \
 		extra/povray.nanorc \
 		extra/spec.nanorc
diff --git a/syntax/extra/gentoo.nanorc b/syntax/extra/gentoo.nanorc
deleted file mode 100644
index 84e9bcf2..00000000
--- a/syntax/extra/gentoo.nanorc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-## Syntax highlighting for Gentoo ebuilds/eclasses,
-## and (further down) for Portage control files.
-
-syntax ebuild "\.e(build|class)$"
-comment "#"
-
-## All the standard portage functions:
-color brightgreen "(^|\<default_)src_(unpack|prepare|configure|compile|install|test)\>"
-color brightgreen "^pkg_(config|nofetch|info|pretend|setup|(pre|post)(inst|rm))\>"
-color brightgreen "\<default(_pkg_nofetch|_src_(unpack|prepare|configure|compile|test))?\>"
-## Bash-related syntax:
-color green "\<(break|case|continue|do|done|elif|else|esac|exit|fi|for|function|if|in|read|return|select|shift|then|time|until|while)\>"
-color green "\<(declare|eval|exec|export|let|local)\>"
-color green "[][{}():;|`$<>!=&\]"
-color green "-[defhnrsuwxzL]\>"
-color green "-(eq|ne|gt|lt|ge|le)\>"
-## Variables... official portage ones in red, all others in bright red:
-color brightred "\$[-0-9@*#?$!]" "\$[[:alpha:]_][[:alnum:]_]*"
-color brightred "\$\{[#!]?([-@*#?$!]|[0-9]+|[[:alpha:]_][[:alnum:]_]*)(\[([[:digit:]]|@)+\])?(([#%/]|:?[-=?+])[^}]*\}|\[|\})"
-color red "\<(EAPI|ARCH|HOMEPAGE|DESCRIPTION|IUSE|SRC_URI|LICENSE|SLOT|KEYWORDS|[BIPR]?DEPEND|PROVIDE|PROPERTIES|REQUIRED_USE|RESTRICT|USERLAND)\>"
-color red "\<(S|E?D|T|PV|PF|P|PN|PR|PVR|A|CATEGORY|DISTDIR|FILESDIR|EPREFIX|(B|E|E?SYS)?ROOT|WORKDIR)\>"
-color red "\<(AS|C(PP|XX)?|LD)FLAGS\>" "\<C(HOST|TARGET|BUILD)\>" "\<(MERGE_TYPE|REPLACING_VERSIONS|REPLACED_BY_VERSION)\>"
-color red "\<EBUILD_PHASE(_FUNC)?\>"
-color red "\<QA_((TEXTRELS|EXECSTACK|WX_LOAD)(_[a-zA-Z_0-9]+)?|DT_HASH|PRESTRIPPED)\>"
-color red "\<(PATCHES|(HTML_)?DOCS)\>" "\<WANT_(AUTO(CONF|MAKE)|LIBTOOL)\>" "\<AT_M4DIR\>"
-## Portage commands:
-color magenta "\<(use(_(with|enable|if_iuse)|x)?|in_iuse) [!a-zA-Z0-9_+ -]*" "inherit.*"
-color brightblue "\<e(apply(_user)?|begin|end|conf|install|make|ninja|qmake5|ant|(qa)?warn|infon?|error|log|patch(_user)?|new(group|user))\>"
-color brightblue "\<e(pause|beep|mktemp|(cvs|svn)_clean|punt_cxx)\>" "\<e(aclocal|auto(reconf|header|conf|make)|libtoolize)\>"
-color brightblue "\<e(stack|shopts|umask)_(push|pop)\>" "\<get_libdir\>" "\<ver_(cut|rs|test)\>" "\<version_is_at_least\>"
-color brightblue "\<make_desktop_entry\>" "\<unpack(_(makeself|pdv))?\>"
-color brightblue "\<(die|hasv?|inherit|nonfatal)\>" "\<(use(_(with|enable|if_iuse)|x)?|in_iuse)\>" "\<(has|best)_version\>"
-color brightblue "\<(do|new)(ins|s?bin|doc|header|lib(\.so|\.a)?|man|info|exe|initd|confd|envd|pam|menu|icon)\>"
-color brightblue "\<do(compress|dir|html|mo|strip|sym)\>" "\<keepdir\>"
-color brightblue "\<prepall(docs|info|man|strip)?\>" "\<prep(info|lib|lib\.(so|a)|man|strip)\>"
-color brightblue "\<(doc|ins|exe)?into\>" "\<f(owners|perms)\>" "\<(exe|ins|dir)opts\>"
-color brightblue "\<tc-get(BUILD_)?(AR|AS|CC|CPP|CXX|LD|NM|OBJCOPY|PKG_CONFIG|RANLIB)\>"
-color brightblue "\<tc-(arch(-kernel)?|export|has-(tls|openmp)|is-cross-compiler)\>"
-## Common commands used in ebuilds:
-color blue "\<(awk|cat|cd|chmod|chown|cp|echo|env|find|e?grep|ln|make|mkdir|mv|popd|printf|pushd|rm|rmdir|sed|set|tar|touch|unset|xargs)\>"
-## Comments (doesn't work that well):
-color yellow "(^|[[:space:]])#.*"
-## Strings (doesn't work that well):
-color brightyellow ""([^"\]|\\.)*"|'([^'\]|\\.)*'"
-## Trailing space is bad!
-color ,green "[[:space:]]+$"
-## Mixed whitespace is also bad.
-color ,green " 	"
-
-
-syntax /etc/portage "\.(accept_keywords|env|keywords|mask|unmask|use)(/.+)?$"
-comment "#"
-
-## Base text:
-color green ".+"
-## Likely version and slot numbers:
-color magenta "-[[:digit:].]+(_(alpha|beta|pre|rc|p)[[:digit:]]*)*(-r[[:digit:]]+)?([:[:space:]]|$)"
-color magenta ":[^[:space:]]+([[:space:]]|$)"
-## Use flags (must come after version/slot):
-color brightred "[[:space:]]+\+?[A-Za-z0-9+_@-]+"
-color brightblue "[[:space:]]+-[A-Za-z0-9+_@-]+"
-## Accepted arches:
-color white "[~-]?\<(alpha|amd64|arm(64)?|hppa|ia64|m68k|mips|ppc(64)?|riscv|s390|sparc|x86)(-(cygwin|linux|macos|solaris|winnt))?\>"
-color white "[[:space:]][*~-]?\*"
-## Categories:
-color cyan "^[[:space:]]*[^/]*/"
-## Masking regulators:
-color brightmagenta "^[[:space:]]*(=|~|<|<=|>|>=)"
-## Comments:
-color yellow "#.*"
-## Trailing space is bad!
-color ,green "[[:space:]]+$"
-## Mixed whitespace is also bad.
-color ,green " 	"