diff --git a/dev-util/scanmem/Manifest b/dev-util/scanmem/Manifest
index df1de63831090..2bdd1b2da56e4 100644
--- a/dev-util/scanmem/Manifest
+++ b/dev-util/scanmem/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST scanmem-0.16.1.tar.gz 202133 BLAKE2B bb07234aaf1f93dba5f7feb0af0efcdadb7cd7cabfce2d62f19da01ba947cf9f4ba91024db2379e218b91953679a77080a4fa711ceaca659ac7b3f01645e3f93 SHA512 5e0a97e020a8a392aed75e2654cc6bcfad68590b9caab43444e57c3180be45ce1269f5acb02355bee57ff8bb5b9349b4f65e0fe96655206a812ea645796b153b
 DIST scanmem-0.17.tar.gz 220489 BLAKE2B b1ae07f96fd736e9ca6a5d55ad2d6b06b7d0dc4828915e0f2adaa2d58b053d9734ccd7425fb5391289249f838773cf3f9a81dbe76bacd42f41203d27dcffed05 SHA512 6d74f3d1d3492d41cabc342cfd1189815536dcbd57857d8a92e05c5dcaebcb9b1df886aee706c56eaf3344737070ea0fe852eef164ef3fe7907f66c626d8523e
diff --git a/dev-util/scanmem/scanmem-0.16.1.ebuild b/dev-util/scanmem/scanmem-0.16.1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index d46dad01e3a38..0000000000000
--- a/dev-util/scanmem/scanmem-0.16.1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_{5,6}} )
-
-inherit autotools eutils python-single-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="Locate and modify variables in executing processes"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/scanmem/scanmem"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/scanmem/scanmem/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE="gui"
-
-DEPEND="sys-libs/readline:="
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
-	gui? (
-		${PYTHON_DEPS}
-		dev-python/pygobject:3
-		sys-auth/polkit
-	)"
-
-REQUIRED_USE="gui? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	use gui && python-single-r1_pkg_setup
-}
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-
-	sed -i "/CFLAGS/d" Makefile.am || die
-
-	eautoreconf
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	local myeconfargs=(
-		--with-readline
-		$(use_enable gui)
-	)
-	econf "${myeconfargs[@]}"
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	default
-
-	if use gui ; then
-		docinto gui
-		dodoc gui/{README,TODO}
-		python_fix_shebang "${D}"
-	fi
-}