diff --git a/sci-mathematics/rkward/Manifest b/sci-mathematics/rkward/Manifest
index c2ec4eae3360..2ef6988dd26d 100644
--- a/sci-mathematics/rkward/Manifest
+++ b/sci-mathematics/rkward/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST rkward-0.8.1.tar.gz 9054303 BLAKE2B fa0519abd9d77161691371ab43d58bd202c7fdacec8596711b399a32634d977040a4f102e704eedac7c5e4a83ce997a96687634599f33082ab55d0c2410ef99c SHA512 36e55ac086f57707f8ddd509dc62d8fa5ef549eece430281b47b680e72bf7b14a211eab8fcbcd6c83d58ba8b28a01674844354defe7c6f8026b85548f3398867
 DIST rkward-0.8.2.tar.gz 7109936 BLAKE2B 85087a71cf97b8533a75f61786f6598d8bbc2de7c0ab44d0fc2deee5be8f19d1f7444d3e6374ab6ecb6d78214d1711b0fe91f78a58ef3ef133d8de5601afc6ad SHA512 2e247f8f3f91e62feb576f6d47ec2244671ad4e1a1776e29a818e560b626cf51045f7a1d463e3d8c36e915506afd702b351825324433cb39f35b6b55df8e2d8c
diff --git a/sci-mathematics/rkward/rkward-0.8.1.ebuild b/sci-mathematics/rkward/rkward-0.8.1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 3c9616b9c4bc..000000000000
--- a/sci-mathematics/rkward/rkward-0.8.1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-ECM_HANDBOOK="forceoptional"
-KFMIN=6.9.0
-QTMIN=6.6.2
-inherit ecm kde.org optfeature xdg
-
-DESCRIPTION="IDE for the R-project"
-HOMEPAGE="https://rkward.kde.org/"
-
-if [[ ${KDE_BUILD_TYPE} = release ]]; then
-	SRC_URI="mirror://kde/stable/${PN}/${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
-	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~amd64-linux"
-fi
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2+ LGPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-IUSE=""
-
-DEPEND="
-	dev-lang/R
-	dev-libs/kdsingleapplication[qt6(+)]
-	>=dev-qt/qt5compat-${QTMIN}:6
-	>=dev-qt/qtbase-${QTMIN}:6[dbus,gui,network,widgets,xml]
-	>=dev-qt/qtdeclarative-${QTMIN}:6
-	>=dev-qt/qtwebengine-${QTMIN}:6[widgets]
-	>=kde-frameworks/breeze-icons-${KFMIN}:6
-	>=kde-frameworks/karchive-${KFMIN}:6
-	>=kde-frameworks/kcompletion-${KFMIN}:6
-	>=kde-frameworks/kconfig-${KFMIN}:6
-	>=kde-frameworks/kconfigwidgets-${KFMIN}:6
-	>=kde-frameworks/kcoreaddons-${KFMIN}:6
-	>=kde-frameworks/kcrash-${KFMIN}:6
-	>=kde-frameworks/ki18n-${KFMIN}:6
-	>=kde-frameworks/kio-${KFMIN}:6
-	>=kde-frameworks/kjobwidgets-${KFMIN}:6
-	>=kde-frameworks/knotifications-${KFMIN}:6
-	>=kde-frameworks/kparts-${KFMIN}:6
-	>=kde-frameworks/kservice-${KFMIN}:6
-	>=kde-frameworks/ktexteditor-${KFMIN}:6
-	>=kde-frameworks/kwidgetsaddons-${KFMIN}:6
-	>=kde-frameworks/kwindowsystem-${KFMIN}:6
-	>=kde-frameworks/kxmlgui-${KFMIN}:6
-"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
-	!${CATEGORY}/${PN}:5
-"
-BDEPEND="sys-devel/gettext"
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	if [[ -z "${REPLACING_VERSIONS}" ]]; then
-		optfeature "kate plugins support" "kde-apps/kate-addons:6"
-		optfeature "prendering (or previewing) R markdown (.Rmd) files" "app-text/pandoc"
-		optfeature "managing citations while writing articles" "app-text/kbibtex"
-	fi
-	xdg_pkg_postinst
-}