diff --git a/app-vim/airline/airline-0.7.ebuild b/app-vim/airline/airline-0.7.ebuild
index c19b1c326317e..3b2d75547729c 100644
--- a/app-vim/airline/airline-0.7.ebuild
+++ b/app-vim/airline/airline-0.7.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Id$
 
@@ -23,5 +23,5 @@ VIM_PLUGIN_HELPFILES="${PN}.txt"
 
 src_prepare() {
 	# remove unwanted files
-	rm -rf t Gemfile Rakefile LICENSE README*
+	rm -rv t Gemfile Rakefile LICENSE README* || die
 }
diff --git a/app-vim/airline/airline-0.8.ebuild b/app-vim/airline/airline-0.8.ebuild
index 01233b56c1af5..930466abcc390 100644
--- a/app-vim/airline/airline-0.8.ebuild
+++ b/app-vim/airline/airline-0.8.ebuild
@@ -23,5 +23,5 @@ VIM_PLUGIN_HELPFILES="${PN}.txt"
 
 src_prepare() {
 	# remove unwanted files
-	rm -rf t Gemfile Rakefile LICENSE README*
+	rm -rv t Gemfile Rakefile LICENSE README* || die
 }