diff --git a/dev-cpp/cairomm/Manifest b/dev-cpp/cairomm/Manifest
index 15ec5b166503c..ab5d8910b384d 100644
--- a/dev-cpp/cairomm/Manifest
+++ b/dev-cpp/cairomm/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 DIST cairomm-1.14.4.tar.xz 618548 BLAKE2B 611e05b66e731d470c6d9a64c2eb4aee68aa73be5c05cb7e741e9a851ef15609cfc9fc27177531880b16517e62cf5c3f7669d4f7e7c5c78b9bc7d829e27f4d25 SHA512 9e2692837f55a2e66cd7e9d0a8033a35524df1c3186a53a9be75d71e899240dbc8959c914471e61e311812dabaf815e732142686b42fbdc75a71c05b41013d33
-DIST cairomm-1.16.2.tar.xz 593504 BLAKE2B 6682604f5907f16e40dd497f07eaaca5a4dc8a0b90771a0631406817ec397c42eb1784a6cbf15094ea6d61591acf04818e1b4d64ede3383b6859668d3b445a76 SHA512 61dc639eabe8502e1262c53c92fe57c5647e5ab9931f86ed51e657df1b7d0e3e58c2571910a05236cc0dca8d52f1f693aed99a553430f14d0fb87be1832a6b62
 DIST cairomm-1.18.0.tar.xz 632520 BLAKE2B e05135eb2e22ed6002821567dd951644febc173b04e001f3574d6dac36d0c6d012c3806e7485fa7856402945934c653c4546855a8e97b016130edac31726d827 SHA512 d358a765136e244773b4a0fdcb2d9c81dd0b76f7a27c7108f94df9765f2d790f5f50b5645c09c292efce3e012528f85114d51916450c5fe6fa87d09f5a405d4c
diff --git a/dev-cpp/cairomm/cairomm-1.16.2.ebuild b/dev-cpp/cairomm/cairomm-1.16.2.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index e28126d37356f..0000000000000
--- a/dev-cpp/cairomm/cairomm-1.16.2.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{9..11} )
-inherit meson-multilib python-any-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="C++ bindings for the Cairo vector graphics library"
-HOMEPAGE="https://cairographics.org/cairomm/ https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairomm"
-SRC_URI="https://www.cairographics.org/releases/${P}.tar.xz"
-
-LICENSE="LGPL-2+"
-SLOT="1.16"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~loong ppc ppc64 ~riscv sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos"
-IUSE="gtk-doc test X"
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	dev-libs/libsigc++:3[gtk-doc?,${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
-	>=x11-libs/cairo-1.12.10[X=,${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
-"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	test? (
-		dev-libs/boost[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
-		media-libs/fontconfig[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
-	)
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	virtual/pkgconfig
-	gtk-doc? (
-		${PYTHON_DEPS}
-		>=dev-cpp/mm-common-1.0.4
-		app-text/doxygen[dot]
-		dev-libs/libxslt
-	)
-"
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	use gtk-doc && python-any-r1_pkg_setup
-}
-
-multilib_src_configure() {
-	local emesonargs=(
-		$(meson_native_use_bool gtk-doc build-documentation)
-		-Dbuild-examples=false
-		$(meson_use test build-tests)
-		-Dboost-shared=true
-	)
-	meson_src_configure
-}