diff --git a/dev-ruby/timeout/Manifest b/dev-ruby/timeout/Manifest
index 30ca2ec5e7930..2d86e65a55816 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/timeout/Manifest
+++ b/dev-ruby/timeout/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST timeout-0.4.1.tar.gz 7197 BLAKE2B 182b8904345228f90406b2b567a9342b0724ad0abb103392ec2682c8040168e1bb98c90256d3715d5938f09bf92e9650fc3423903dacd620b753d5119f143910 SHA512 1ca23bfcaf2c67a59805f814b20a9fe6e492b8f68e492c86290d6c638b07ea9b6f14c4cc84c14b891b5aaf611f46968af8947565ea83d783c90144df4e3e612f
 DIST timeout-0.4.3.tar.gz 8695 BLAKE2B bc94fe6ee95f562d3ee10f3d26eafe4c644d1dd62e51fdc5ba7f83c8ddf051ffd04144d764d6546c05d62ed1b36567f5607346cb31332de096ab91a7a6681863 SHA512 e9f9fa4fe7465bd6b27997e0fd045c5e5abdb57dc102669d54329630291daffb13c57895177ef7d93a02ade2a34f6be1a418ffc864c85a9775bb616adc56f3c4
diff --git a/dev-ruby/timeout/timeout-0.4.1.ebuild b/dev-ruby/timeout/timeout-0.4.1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 2b31e206c5742..0000000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/timeout/timeout-0.4.1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-USE_RUBY="ruby31 ruby32 ruby33"
-
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_BINWRAP=""
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="README.md"
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_GEMSPEC="timeout.gemspec"
-
-inherit ruby-fakegem
-
-DESCRIPTION="Provides a framework for message digest libraries"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/ruby/timeout"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/ruby/timeout/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="BSD-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~arm64-macos ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
-IUSE=""
-
-ruby_add_bdepend "test? ( dev-ruby/test-unit dev-ruby/test-unit-ruby-core )"
-
-all_ruby_prepare() {
-	sed -e 's/__dir__/"."/' \
-		-e 's/__FILE__/"'${RUBY_FAKEGEM_GEMSPEC}'"/' \
-		-e 's/git ls-files -z/find * -print0/' \
-		-i ${RUBY_FAKEGEM_GEMSPEC} || die
-}