diff --git a/dev-ruby/ruby-shadow/Manifest b/dev-ruby/ruby-shadow/Manifest
index e46da29229aca..7e0ec21e92f86 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/ruby-shadow/Manifest
+++ b/dev-ruby/ruby-shadow/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST ruby-shadow-2.5.0.gem 11264 BLAKE2B 22012d4672528e76a860e534fecb2a40d27c15f7440a0be6880c4ffd06be26e58d2f5279c385c49aca611864c8959ed0ea3afdd78bcdb28ac0912123f18a35e0 SHA512 1abd54df1bd4f29e135093df9b22886a726824f8b72b742017fd31bdc3fa39e3d79410a747cf2ebe4117f75e665fb89c904375b5c44a674bec91a4cc37646520
 DIST ruby-shadow-2.5.1.gem 11264 BLAKE2B 0371fbf8f01dd6907b26369c33e69bc11664282ce1005792cff70113b0a05bfe0ce0eddd15896a9c6bcc9de38671d73034414f354f34d2716fd4f9265d823cbf SHA512 401ba31f6f87b9b50597e3924c67ef9d0a8f566ea4649735caf59e2b706861babf9b3aa273b7c47ca1cc9c8b4fde79ab21d2e264cd7ba58041fe7b8f9fd87411
diff --git a/dev-ruby/ruby-shadow/ruby-shadow-2.5.0-r1.ebuild b/dev-ruby/ruby-shadow/ruby-shadow-2.5.0-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index b54730c5a5275..0000000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/ruby-shadow/ruby-shadow-2.5.0-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-# ruby30: does not compile
-USE_RUBY="ruby26 ruby27"
-
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_TASK_TEST=""
-
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="HISTORY README README.euc"
-
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTENSIONS=(./extconf.rb)
-
-inherit ruby-fakegem
-
-DESCRIPTION="ruby shadow bindings"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/apalmblad/ruby-shadow http://ttsky.net"
-
-LICENSE="|| ( public-domain Unlicense )"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm ~hppa ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc x86"
-IUSE=""