diff --git a/dev-libs/cxxtools/Manifest b/dev-libs/cxxtools/Manifest
index c70928174cbd..0108bdb528d8 100644
--- a/dev-libs/cxxtools/Manifest
+++ b/dev-libs/cxxtools/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST cxxtools-3.0.tar.gz 1079247 BLAKE2B 536680373e194dbdb6a79bdb09960830b6aad34c2657a0024b218321154de81653f1e47db13abfcf13f0179fa6f85e0a30a4b97f0e64ca0ac5f1cc7be003270d SHA512 839be18a8bf40c1cbaa016ac50ddacfd879d1f9bea6521209c65790d67d5ee81377519aac2fb373a5de154a293e33185401848e41a697aa57ad6aa42d4854250
 DIST cxxtools-3.0.tgz 668184 BLAKE2B 914ad057888d943c438491590e905505c13c938cafa0b81586f42ff7fd4059815e85f89b6a6ae799dee9e1a239b31840d9e328d92d28aab1e2dc78fb9e9ea674 SHA512 a08d667bcc9e998ed94cd749fe632560ea7d014968bd9f1515b711f9533111f50612aff62fcc0154bdfe17823c7b708f945a83bb681407b42496d370aaaa6594
diff --git a/dev-libs/cxxtools/cxxtools-3.0-r2.ebuild b/dev-libs/cxxtools/cxxtools-3.0-r2.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index b46ea02fa47a..000000000000
--- a/dev-libs/cxxtools/cxxtools-3.0-r2.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2021-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-inherit autotools
-
-DESCRIPTION="Collection of general purpose C++-classes"
-HOMEPAGE="http://www.tntnet.org/cxxtools.html"
-SRC_URI="http://www.tntnet.org/download/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="LGPL-2.1"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ~sparc x86"
-IUSE="test"
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-RDEPEND="virtual/libiconv"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-
-DOCS=( AUTHORS )
-
-PATCHES=(
-	"${FILESDIR}"/${P}_gcc11.patch
-	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-3.0-gcc12-time.patch
-	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-3.0-lld-linking-openssl.patch
-)
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-
-	eautoreconf
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	econf \
-		--disable-demos \
-		$(use_enable test unittest)
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	emake -C test
-
-	local -x USER=${LOGNAME}
-	local -x TZ=UTC # doesn't like e.g. :/etc/timezone
-	cd test || die
-	./alltests || die
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install
-	einstalldocs
-
-	# remove static libs
-	rm -f "${ED}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/libcxxtools{,-bin,-http,-json,-unit,-xmlrpc}.la || die
-}