diff --git a/dev-R/RcppEnsmallen/Manifest b/dev-R/RcppEnsmallen/Manifest
index 4f66f0fdd4..a0c565f82c 100644
--- a/dev-R/RcppEnsmallen/Manifest
+++ b/dev-R/RcppEnsmallen/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST RcppEnsmallen_0.2.15.0.1.tar.gz 223966 BLAKE2B fd7ed0b56d2f136f836b8987bb7b599aa1acdffce3c77e381939d7ec575cb5dabb181d5ddd7c229f3905b3d43c69705cd55fffcae5ea057742435ac13baa5080 SHA512 ab3ad2711154342030f66d89a3472181ac311b769b55018742cbee7e233327eabb85d4dccb9a5361f680d1ca0fe5ffa613211f908d85981eea19efd0ecb39f70
 DIST RcppEnsmallen_0.2.17.0.1.tar.gz 243399 BLAKE2B c143d6f2d3631e1226ee35894fc56ea113a756418efbd1e2deb70d9b1ddbf63e79b6cbe8c86f2dab81bbfd62af2ae464651fedd893dee0c6961c8759f589c421 SHA512 6b6c10ad188b13cca2498c5fc2cec74a18eab34f30411cbc48e09c327253889aa85a80717372aadc2f5c2245f7a7332c474cae237730bab5dbf4b4895f0f7607
diff --git a/dev-R/RcppEnsmallen/RcppEnsmallen-0.2.15.0.1.ebuild b/dev-R/RcppEnsmallen/RcppEnsmallen-0.2.15.0.1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 8fc9736853..0000000000
--- a/dev-R/RcppEnsmallen/RcppEnsmallen-0.2.15.0.1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-MYPV="$(ver_cut 2-4 ${PV})"
-
-inherit R-packages
-
-DESCRIPTION='Header-Only C++ Mathematical Optimization library for armadillo'
-SRC_URI="mirror://cran/src/contrib/Archive/RcppEnsmallen/RcppEnsmallen_${PV}.tar.gz"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-LICENSE='GPL-2+'
-
-DEPEND="
-	>=dev-lang/R-3.3.0
-	dev-R/Rcpp
-	=sci-libs/ensmallen-${MYPV}*
-"
-RDEPEND="
-	${DEPEND}
-	dev-R/Rcpp
-	>=dev-R/RcppArmadillo-0.8.400.0.0
-"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-	#remove bundled
-	rm -r inst/include/ensmallen_bits || die
-	rm inst/include/ensmallen.hpp || die
-	#link to sci-libs/ensmallen
-	dosym /usr/include/ensmallen_bits inst/include/ensmallen_bits
-	dosym /usr/include/ensmallen.hpp inst/include/ensmallen.hpp
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	R-packages_src_install
-	dosym /usr/include/ensmallen_bits "/usr/$(get_libdir)/R/site-library/${PN}/include/ensmallen_bits"
-	dosym /usr/include/ensmallen.hpp "/usr/$(get_libdir)/R/site-library/${PN}/include/ensmallen.hpp"
-}