diff --git a/app-misc/boxes/Manifest b/app-misc/boxes/Manifest
index a545a49b7a36..b399a96bfe8f 100644
--- a/app-misc/boxes/Manifest
+++ b/app-misc/boxes/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-DIST boxes-2.2.0.tar.gz 230099 BLAKE2B 4adb8ddde85cb31f32e98916d5ea2a57afcaa0470f796ba296cb3b80780f158a24b2bc5e9ba923b6a3b35b8f7781cd6ddacd89abadf6f2c07549be7ffe1458f4 SHA512 534d441c34316572d0c7e89f343a3bc5bb5a8466e4d4ed703fb2d14b714f5a6b224f7b0d408525d492da4610f9c5ffd8508e16d98a0781897567fb4aeb316f39
 DIST boxes-2.2.1.tar.gz 230900 BLAKE2B 65ab0c8ad52d2764279397135b072bfa6f4bf86e465cc3a4778d30c5b19ce2c0d7c5f8636173529eca92754ee16d38b46a83b067b94315b1ea82448e4b1ac0a8 SHA512 0afa115d5ec01944878ef4d8f33e2887d123b172a0589eda53a04ba671916d9ef1d8299f9df9aeac8989807f86ca1b96b1c34aed03856643a89a07586b82e3b6
 DIST boxes-2.3.0.tar.gz 272302 BLAKE2B 282b41aee214f54aa3c8b237bc9f2e48e4144eebd6619880a38c7a71d9bf7bb434a250f29a05f20746530e8458bb0d062cd7e5bea88ebdf64030f090b1a8674a SHA512 d7580462ed5cf8a3299f528d7e4abea1c9733da2823c204bff69a804c72b768c4d3e8505b4d8881aae066f1fd95133cf9dc52e960333a82d8c529f85eb096fb4
diff --git a/app-misc/boxes/boxes-2.2.0.ebuild b/app-misc/boxes/boxes-2.2.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index ec80aa0a7e8e..000000000000
--- a/app-misc/boxes/boxes-2.2.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-inherit toolchain-funcs
-
-DESCRIPTION="Draw any kind of boxes around your text"
-HOMEPAGE="https://boxes.thomasjensen.com/ https://github.com/ascii-boxes/boxes"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/ascii-boxes/boxes/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 ~ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 sparc x86"
-IUSE="test"
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	dev-libs/libpcre2[pcre32]
-	dev-libs/libunistring:=
-"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-BDEPEND="
-	app-alternatives/yacc
-	app-alternatives/lex
-	test? ( app-editors/vim-core )
-"
-
-PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}/${P}-fix-clang16-build.patch" )
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-
-	sed \
-		-e 's:STRIP=true:STRIP=false:g' \
-		-i src/Makefile || die
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	emake CC="$(tc-getCC)" CFLAGS_ADDTL="${CFLAGS}" LDFLAGS_ADDTL="${LDFLAGS}"
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	dobin out/boxes
-	doman doc/boxes.1
-	insinto /usr/share
-	newins boxes-config boxes
-	einstalldocs
-}
diff --git a/app-misc/boxes/files/boxes-2.2.0-fix-clang16-build.patch b/app-misc/boxes/files/boxes-2.2.0-fix-clang16-build.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 38be8e1ede81..000000000000
--- a/app-misc/boxes/files/boxes-2.2.0-fix-clang16-build.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-change function prototype to work with c2x standard. Build fails with clang16 without this
-
-See: https://github.com/ascii-boxes/boxes/issues/106
-
---- a/src/remove.h
-+++ b/src/remove.h
-@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
-
-
- int remove_box();
--void output_input();
-+void output_input(const int trim_only);
-
-
- #endif /*REMOVE_H*/