diff --git a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-26.3-r18.ebuild b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-26.3-r18.ebuild
index a6495367c0092..c5236bfa6e767 100644
--- a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-26.3-r18.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-26.3-r18.ebuild
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ S="${WORKDIR}/emacs-${FULL_VERSION}"
 LICENSE="GPL-3+ FDL-1.3+ BSD HPND MIT W3C unicode PSF-2"
 SLOT="26"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos"
-IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el imagemagick +inotify jpeg kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars valgrind wide-int Xaw3d xft +xpm xwidgets zlib"
+IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el imagemagick +inotify jpeg kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars valgrind wide-int Xaw3d xft +xpm zlib"
 
 RDEPEND="app-emacs/emacs-common[games?,gui(-)?]
 	sys-libs/ncurses:0=
@@ -67,13 +67,7 @@ RDEPEND="app-emacs/emacs-common[games?,gui(-)?]
 				>=dev-libs/m17n-lib-1.5.1
 			)
 		)
-		gtk? (
-			x11-libs/gtk+:3
-			xwidgets? (
-				net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.1=
-				x11-libs/libXcomposite
-			)
-		)
+		gtk? ( x11-libs/gtk+:3 )
 		!gtk? (
 			motif? (
 				>=x11-libs/motif-2.3:0
@@ -188,7 +182,7 @@ src_configure() {
 				recommended that you compile Emacs with the Athena/Lucid or the
 				Motif toolkit instead.
 			EOF
-			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 $(use_with xwidgets)"
+			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --without-xwidgets"
 			for f in motif Xaw3d athena; do
 				use ${f} && ewarn \
 					"USE flag \"${f}\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is set."
@@ -207,8 +201,6 @@ src_configure() {
 			einfo "Configuring to build with no toolkit"
 			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=no"
 		fi
-		! use gtk && use xwidgets && ewarn \
-			"USE flag \"xwidgets\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is not set."
 	fi
 
 	econf \
diff --git a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-26.3-r19.ebuild b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-26.3-r19.ebuild
index 56ce5683b767a..1fb9cb7f2f7fb 100644
--- a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-26.3-r19.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-26.3-r19.ebuild
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ S="${WORKDIR}/emacs-${FULL_VERSION}"
 LICENSE="GPL-3+ FDL-1.3+ BSD HPND MIT W3C unicode PSF-2"
 SLOT="26"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~mips ~ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos"
-IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el imagemagick +inotify jpeg kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars valgrind wide-int Xaw3d xft +xpm xwidgets zlib"
+IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el imagemagick +inotify jpeg kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars valgrind wide-int Xaw3d xft +xpm zlib"
 
 RDEPEND="app-emacs/emacs-common[games?,gui(-)?]
 	sys-libs/ncurses:0=
@@ -67,13 +67,7 @@ RDEPEND="app-emacs/emacs-common[games?,gui(-)?]
 				>=dev-libs/m17n-lib-1.5.1
 			)
 		)
-		gtk? (
-			x11-libs/gtk+:3
-			xwidgets? (
-				net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.1=
-				x11-libs/libXcomposite
-			)
-		)
+		gtk? ( x11-libs/gtk+:3 )
 		!gtk? (
 			motif? (
 				>=x11-libs/motif-2.3:0
@@ -188,7 +182,7 @@ src_configure() {
 				recommended that you compile Emacs with the Athena/Lucid or the
 				Motif toolkit instead.
 			EOF
-			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 $(use_with xwidgets)"
+			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --without-xwidgets"
 			for f in motif Xaw3d athena; do
 				use ${f} && ewarn \
 					"USE flag \"${f}\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is set."
@@ -207,8 +201,6 @@ src_configure() {
 			einfo "Configuring to build with no toolkit"
 			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=no"
 		fi
-		! use gtk && use xwidgets && ewarn \
-			"USE flag \"xwidgets\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is not set."
 	fi
 
 	econf \
diff --git a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-27.2-r16.ebuild b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-27.2-r16.ebuild
index 2348c2a771867..b78252ea516d9 100644
--- a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-27.2-r16.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-27.2-r16.ebuild
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display ed
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/"
 
 LICENSE="GPL-3+ FDL-1.3+ BSD HPND MIT W3C unicode PSF-2"
-IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif +gmp gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el harfbuzz imagemagick +inotify jpeg json kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars valgrind wide-int Xaw3d xft +xpm xwidgets zlib"
+IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif +gmp gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el harfbuzz imagemagick +inotify jpeg json kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars valgrind wide-int Xaw3d xft +xpm zlib"
 RESTRICT="test"
 
 RDEPEND="app-emacs/emacs-common[games?,gui(-)?]
@@ -96,13 +96,7 @@ RDEPEND="app-emacs/emacs-common[games?,gui(-)?]
 				>=dev-libs/m17n-lib-1.5.1
 			)
 		)
-		gtk? (
-			x11-libs/gtk+:3
-			xwidgets? (
-				net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.1=
-				x11-libs/libXcomposite
-			)
-		)
+		gtk? ( x11-libs/gtk+:3 )
 		!gtk? (
 			motif? (
 				>=x11-libs/motif-2.3:0
@@ -229,7 +223,7 @@ src_configure() {
 				recommended that you compile Emacs with the Athena/Lucid or the
 				Motif toolkit instead.
 			EOF
-			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 $(use_with xwidgets)"
+			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --without-xwidgets"
 			for f in motif Xaw3d athena; do
 				use ${f} && ewarn \
 					"USE flag \"${f}\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is set."
@@ -248,8 +242,6 @@ src_configure() {
 			einfo "Configuring to build with no toolkit"
 			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=no"
 		fi
-		! use gtk && use xwidgets && ewarn \
-			"USE flag \"xwidgets\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is not set."
 	fi
 
 	if tc-is-cross-compiler; then
diff --git a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-27.2-r17.ebuild b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-27.2-r17.ebuild
index 5ed69ced9cd6d..db9b0cc4c050e 100644
--- a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-27.2-r17.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-27.2-r17.ebuild
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display ed
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/"
 
 LICENSE="GPL-3+ FDL-1.3+ BSD HPND MIT W3C unicode PSF-2"
-IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif +gmp gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el harfbuzz imagemagick +inotify jpeg json kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars valgrind wide-int Xaw3d xft +xpm xwidgets zlib"
+IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif +gmp gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el harfbuzz imagemagick +inotify jpeg json kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars valgrind wide-int Xaw3d xft +xpm zlib"
 RESTRICT="test"
 
 RDEPEND="app-emacs/emacs-common[games?,gui(-)?]
@@ -96,13 +96,7 @@ RDEPEND="app-emacs/emacs-common[games?,gui(-)?]
 				>=dev-libs/m17n-lib-1.5.1
 			)
 		)
-		gtk? (
-			x11-libs/gtk+:3
-			xwidgets? (
-				net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.1=
-				x11-libs/libXcomposite
-			)
-		)
+		gtk? ( x11-libs/gtk+:3 )
 		!gtk? (
 			motif? (
 				>=x11-libs/motif-2.3:0
@@ -229,7 +223,7 @@ src_configure() {
 				recommended that you compile Emacs with the Athena/Lucid or the
 				Motif toolkit instead.
 			EOF
-			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 $(use_with xwidgets)"
+			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --without-xwidgets"
 			for f in motif Xaw3d athena; do
 				use ${f} && ewarn \
 					"USE flag \"${f}\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is set."
@@ -248,8 +242,6 @@ src_configure() {
 			einfo "Configuring to build with no toolkit"
 			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=no"
 		fi
-		! use gtk && use xwidgets && ewarn \
-			"USE flag \"xwidgets\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is not set."
 	fi
 
 	if tc-is-cross-compiler; then
diff --git a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-28.2-r12.ebuild b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-28.2-r12.ebuild
index 2327772192872..8549d9fba4053 100644
--- a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-28.2-r12.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-28.2-r12.ebuild
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display ed
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/"
 
 LICENSE="GPL-3+ FDL-1.3+ BSD HPND MIT W3C unicode PSF-2"
-IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif +gmp gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el harfbuzz imagemagick +inotify jit jpeg json kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars valgrind wide-int Xaw3d xft +xpm xwidgets zlib"
+IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif +gmp gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el harfbuzz imagemagick +inotify jit jpeg json kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars valgrind wide-int Xaw3d xft +xpm zlib"
 
 RDEPEND="app-emacs/emacs-common[games?,gui(-)?]
 	sys-libs/ncurses:0=
@@ -99,13 +99,7 @@ RDEPEND="app-emacs/emacs-common[games?,gui(-)?]
 				>=dev-libs/m17n-lib-1.5.1
 			)
 		)
-		gtk? (
-			x11-libs/gtk+:3
-			xwidgets? (
-				net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.1=
-				x11-libs/libXcomposite
-			)
-		)
+		gtk? ( x11-libs/gtk+:3 )
 		!gtk? (
 			motif? (
 				>=x11-libs/motif-2.3:0
@@ -264,7 +258,7 @@ src_configure() {
 				recommended that you compile Emacs with the Athena/Lucid or the
 				Motif toolkit instead.
 			EOF
-			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 $(use_with xwidgets)"
+			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --without-xwidgets"
 			for f in motif Xaw3d athena; do
 				use ${f} && ewarn \
 					"USE flag \"${f}\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is set."
@@ -283,8 +277,6 @@ src_configure() {
 			einfo "Configuring to build with no toolkit"
 			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=no"
 		fi
-		! use gtk && use xwidgets && ewarn \
-			"USE flag \"xwidgets\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is not set."
 	fi
 
 	if tc-is-cross-compiler; then
diff --git a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-28.2-r13.ebuild b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-28.2-r13.ebuild
index 3db92bfdf0181..f7e8fa9848ff7 100644
--- a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-28.2-r13.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-28.2-r13.ebuild
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display ed
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/"
 
 LICENSE="GPL-3+ FDL-1.3+ BSD HPND MIT W3C unicode PSF-2"
-IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif +gmp gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el harfbuzz imagemagick +inotify jit jpeg json kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars valgrind wide-int Xaw3d xft +xpm xwidgets zlib"
+IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif +gmp gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el harfbuzz imagemagick +inotify jit jpeg json kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars valgrind wide-int Xaw3d xft +xpm zlib"
 
 RDEPEND="app-emacs/emacs-common[games?,gui(-)?]
 	sys-libs/ncurses:0=
@@ -99,13 +99,7 @@ RDEPEND="app-emacs/emacs-common[games?,gui(-)?]
 				>=dev-libs/m17n-lib-1.5.1
 			)
 		)
-		gtk? (
-			x11-libs/gtk+:3
-			xwidgets? (
-				net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.1=
-				x11-libs/libXcomposite
-			)
-		)
+		gtk? ( x11-libs/gtk+:3 )
 		!gtk? (
 			motif? (
 				>=x11-libs/motif-2.3:0
@@ -264,7 +258,7 @@ src_configure() {
 				recommended that you compile Emacs with the Athena/Lucid or the
 				Motif toolkit instead.
 			EOF
-			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 $(use_with xwidgets)"
+			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --without-xwidgets"
 			for f in motif Xaw3d athena; do
 				use ${f} && ewarn \
 					"USE flag \"${f}\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is set."
@@ -283,8 +277,6 @@ src_configure() {
 			einfo "Configuring to build with no toolkit"
 			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=no"
 		fi
-		! use gtk && use xwidgets && ewarn \
-			"USE flag \"xwidgets\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is not set."
 	fi
 
 	if tc-is-cross-compiler; then
diff --git a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-29.3-r2.ebuild b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-29.3-r2.ebuild
index 58067c63963bc..1aadd5af2cdc7 100644
--- a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-29.3-r2.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-29.3-r2.ebuild
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display ed
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/"
 
 LICENSE="GPL-3+ FDL-1.3+ BSD HPND MIT W3C unicode PSF-2"
-IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif +gmp gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el harfbuzz imagemagick +inotify jit jpeg json kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source sqlite ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars tree-sitter valgrind webp wide-int +X Xaw3d xft +xpm xwidgets zlib"
+IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif +gmp gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el harfbuzz imagemagick +inotify jit jpeg json kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source sqlite ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars tree-sitter valgrind webp wide-int +X Xaw3d xft +xpm zlib"
 
 X_DEPEND="x11-libs/libICE
 	x11-libs/libSM
@@ -70,13 +70,7 @@ X_DEPEND="x11-libs/libICE
 			>=dev-libs/m17n-lib-1.5.1
 		)
 	)
-	gtk? (
-		x11-libs/gtk+:3
-		xwidgets? (
-			net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.1=
-			x11-libs/libXcomposite
-		)
-	)
+	gtk? ( x11-libs/gtk+:3 )
 	!gtk? (
 		motif? (
 			>=x11-libs/motif-2.3:0
@@ -147,7 +141,6 @@ RDEPEND="app-emacs/emacs-common[games?,gui(-)?]
 					>=dev-libs/libotf-0.9.4
 					>=dev-libs/m17n-lib-1.5.1
 				)
-				xwidgets? ( net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.1= )
 			) )
 			!gtk? ( ${X_DEPEND} )
 			X? ( ${X_DEPEND} )
@@ -271,11 +264,11 @@ src_configure() {
 		myconf+=" --with-pgtk --without-x --without-ns"
 		myconf+=" --with-toolkit-scroll-bars" #836392
 		myconf+=" --without-gconf"
+		myconf+=" --without-xwidgets"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with gsettings)"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with harfbuzz)"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with m17n-lib libotf)"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with m17n-lib m17n-flt)"
-		myconf+=" $(use_with xwidgets)"
 	else
 		# X11
 		myconf+=" --with-x --without-pgtk --without-ns"
@@ -313,7 +306,7 @@ src_configure() {
 				recommended that you compile Emacs with the Athena/Lucid or the
 				Motif toolkit instead.
 			EOF
-			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 $(use_with xwidgets)"
+			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --without-xwidgets"
 			for f in motif Xaw3d athena; do
 				use ${f} && ewarn \
 					"USE flag \"${f}\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is set."
@@ -332,8 +325,6 @@ src_configure() {
 			einfo "Configuring to build with no toolkit"
 			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=no"
 		fi
-		! use gtk && use xwidgets && ewarn \
-			"USE flag \"xwidgets\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is not set."
 	fi
 
 	if use gui; then
diff --git a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-29.3-r3.ebuild b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-29.3-r3.ebuild
index 517cd3ebfb7ba..b38be4ee9a2d1 100644
--- a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-29.3-r3.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-29.3-r3.ebuild
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display ed
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/"
 
 LICENSE="GPL-3+ FDL-1.3+ BSD HPND MIT W3C unicode PSF-2"
-IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif +gmp gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el harfbuzz imagemagick +inotify jit jpeg json kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source sqlite ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars tree-sitter valgrind webp wide-int +X Xaw3d xft +xpm xwidgets zlib"
+IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif +gmp gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el harfbuzz imagemagick +inotify jit jpeg json kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source sqlite ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars tree-sitter valgrind webp wide-int +X Xaw3d xft +xpm zlib"
 
 X_DEPEND="x11-libs/libICE
 	x11-libs/libSM
@@ -70,13 +70,7 @@ X_DEPEND="x11-libs/libICE
 			>=dev-libs/m17n-lib-1.5.1
 		)
 	)
-	gtk? (
-		x11-libs/gtk+:3
-		xwidgets? (
-			net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.1=
-			x11-libs/libXcomposite
-		)
-	)
+	gtk? ( x11-libs/gtk+:3 )
 	!gtk? (
 		motif? (
 			>=x11-libs/motif-2.3:0
@@ -147,7 +141,6 @@ RDEPEND="app-emacs/emacs-common[games?,gui(-)?]
 					>=dev-libs/libotf-0.9.4
 					>=dev-libs/m17n-lib-1.5.1
 				)
-				xwidgets? ( net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.1= )
 			) )
 			!gtk? ( ${X_DEPEND} )
 			X? ( ${X_DEPEND} )
@@ -271,11 +264,11 @@ src_configure() {
 		myconf+=" --with-pgtk --without-x --without-ns"
 		myconf+=" --with-toolkit-scroll-bars" #836392
 		myconf+=" --without-gconf"
+		myconf+=" --without-xwidgets"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with gsettings)"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with harfbuzz)"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with m17n-lib libotf)"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with m17n-lib m17n-flt)"
-		myconf+=" $(use_with xwidgets)"
 	else
 		# X11
 		myconf+=" --with-x --without-pgtk --without-ns"
@@ -313,7 +306,7 @@ src_configure() {
 				recommended that you compile Emacs with the Athena/Lucid or the
 				Motif toolkit instead.
 			EOF
-			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 $(use_with xwidgets)"
+			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --without-xwidgets"
 			for f in motif Xaw3d athena; do
 				use ${f} && ewarn \
 					"USE flag \"${f}\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is set."
@@ -332,8 +325,6 @@ src_configure() {
 			einfo "Configuring to build with no toolkit"
 			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=no"
 		fi
-		! use gtk && use xwidgets && ewarn \
-			"USE flag \"xwidgets\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is not set."
 	fi
 
 	if use gui; then
diff --git a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-29.4.ebuild b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-29.4.ebuild
index efc0e74f926c3..e5cacab45886a 100644
--- a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-29.4.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-29.4.ebuild
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display ed
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/"
 
 LICENSE="GPL-3+ FDL-1.3+ BSD HPND MIT W3C unicode PSF-2"
-IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif +gmp gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el harfbuzz imagemagick +inotify jit jpeg json kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source sqlite ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars tree-sitter valgrind webp wide-int +X Xaw3d xft +xpm xwidgets zlib"
+IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif +gmp gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el harfbuzz imagemagick +inotify jit jpeg json kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source sqlite ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars tree-sitter valgrind webp wide-int +X Xaw3d xft +xpm zlib"
 
 X_DEPEND="x11-libs/libICE
 	x11-libs/libSM
@@ -70,13 +70,7 @@ X_DEPEND="x11-libs/libICE
 			>=dev-libs/m17n-lib-1.5.1
 		)
 	)
-	gtk? (
-		x11-libs/gtk+:3
-		xwidgets? (
-			net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.1=
-			x11-libs/libXcomposite
-		)
-	)
+	gtk? ( x11-libs/gtk+:3 )
 	!gtk? (
 		motif? (
 			>=x11-libs/motif-2.3:0
@@ -147,7 +141,6 @@ RDEPEND="app-emacs/emacs-common[games?,gui(-)?]
 					>=dev-libs/libotf-0.9.4
 					>=dev-libs/m17n-lib-1.5.1
 				)
-				xwidgets? ( net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.1= )
 			) )
 			!gtk? ( ${X_DEPEND} )
 			X? ( ${X_DEPEND} )
@@ -271,11 +264,11 @@ src_configure() {
 		myconf+=" --with-pgtk --without-x --without-ns"
 		myconf+=" --with-toolkit-scroll-bars" #836392
 		myconf+=" --without-gconf"
+		myconf+=" --without-xwidgets"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with gsettings)"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with harfbuzz)"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with m17n-lib libotf)"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with m17n-lib m17n-flt)"
-		myconf+=" $(use_with xwidgets)"
 	else
 		# X11
 		myconf+=" --with-x --without-pgtk --without-ns"
@@ -313,7 +306,7 @@ src_configure() {
 				recommended that you compile Emacs with the Athena/Lucid or the
 				Motif toolkit instead.
 			EOF
-			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 $(use_with xwidgets)"
+			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --without-xwidgets"
 			for f in motif Xaw3d athena; do
 				use ${f} && ewarn \
 					"USE flag \"${f}\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is set."
@@ -332,8 +325,6 @@ src_configure() {
 			einfo "Configuring to build with no toolkit"
 			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=no"
 		fi
-		! use gtk && use xwidgets && ewarn \
-			"USE flag \"xwidgets\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is not set."
 	fi
 
 	if use gui; then
diff --git a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-30.0.91.ebuild b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-30.0.91.ebuild
index 7d7e32e39e10a..b151a0271ab16 100644
--- a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-30.0.91.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-30.0.91.ebuild
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display ed
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/"
 
 LICENSE="GPL-3+ FDL-1.3+ BSD HPND MIT W3C unicode PSF-2"
-IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif +gmp gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el harfbuzz imagemagick +inotify jit jpeg kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source sqlite ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars tree-sitter valgrind webp wide-int +X xattr Xaw3d xft +xpm xwidgets zlib"
+IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif +gmp gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el harfbuzz imagemagick +inotify jit jpeg kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source sqlite ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars tree-sitter valgrind webp wide-int +X xattr Xaw3d xft +xpm zlib"
 
 X_DEPEND="x11-libs/libICE
 	x11-libs/libSM
@@ -67,13 +67,7 @@ X_DEPEND="x11-libs/libICE
 			>=dev-libs/m17n-lib-1.5.1
 		)
 	)
-	gtk? (
-		x11-libs/gtk+:3
-		xwidgets? (
-			net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.1=
-			x11-libs/libXcomposite
-		)
-	)
+	gtk? ( x11-libs/gtk+:3 )
 	!gtk? (
 		motif? (
 			>=x11-libs/motif-2.3:0
@@ -144,7 +138,6 @@ RDEPEND="app-emacs/emacs-common[games?,gui(-)?]
 					>=dev-libs/libotf-0.9.4
 					>=dev-libs/m17n-lib-1.5.1
 				)
-				xwidgets? ( net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.1= )
 			) )
 			!gtk? ( ${X_DEPEND} )
 			X? ( ${X_DEPEND} )
@@ -268,11 +261,11 @@ src_configure() {
 		myconf+=" --with-pgtk --without-x --without-ns"
 		myconf+=" --with-toolkit-scroll-bars" #836392
 		myconf+=" --without-gconf"
+		myconf+=" --without-xwidgets"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with gsettings)"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with harfbuzz)"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with m17n-lib libotf)"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with m17n-lib m17n-flt)"
-		myconf+=" $(use_with xwidgets)"
 	else
 		# X11
 		myconf+=" --with-x --without-pgtk --without-ns"
@@ -310,7 +303,7 @@ src_configure() {
 				recommended that you compile Emacs with the Athena/Lucid or the
 				Motif toolkit instead.
 			EOF
-			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 $(use_with xwidgets)"
+			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --without-xwidgets"
 			for f in motif Xaw3d athena; do
 				use ${f} && ewarn \
 					"USE flag \"${f}\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is set."
@@ -329,8 +322,6 @@ src_configure() {
 			einfo "Configuring to build with no toolkit"
 			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=no"
 		fi
-		! use gtk && use xwidgets && ewarn \
-			"USE flag \"xwidgets\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is not set."
 	fi
 
 	if use gui; then
diff --git a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-30.0.9999-r1.ebuild b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-30.0.9999-r1.ebuild
index 7d7e32e39e10a..b151a0271ab16 100644
--- a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-30.0.9999-r1.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-30.0.9999-r1.ebuild
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display ed
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/"
 
 LICENSE="GPL-3+ FDL-1.3+ BSD HPND MIT W3C unicode PSF-2"
-IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif +gmp gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el harfbuzz imagemagick +inotify jit jpeg kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source sqlite ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars tree-sitter valgrind webp wide-int +X xattr Xaw3d xft +xpm xwidgets zlib"
+IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif +gmp gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el harfbuzz imagemagick +inotify jit jpeg kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source sqlite ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars tree-sitter valgrind webp wide-int +X xattr Xaw3d xft +xpm zlib"
 
 X_DEPEND="x11-libs/libICE
 	x11-libs/libSM
@@ -67,13 +67,7 @@ X_DEPEND="x11-libs/libICE
 			>=dev-libs/m17n-lib-1.5.1
 		)
 	)
-	gtk? (
-		x11-libs/gtk+:3
-		xwidgets? (
-			net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.1=
-			x11-libs/libXcomposite
-		)
-	)
+	gtk? ( x11-libs/gtk+:3 )
 	!gtk? (
 		motif? (
 			>=x11-libs/motif-2.3:0
@@ -144,7 +138,6 @@ RDEPEND="app-emacs/emacs-common[games?,gui(-)?]
 					>=dev-libs/libotf-0.9.4
 					>=dev-libs/m17n-lib-1.5.1
 				)
-				xwidgets? ( net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.1= )
 			) )
 			!gtk? ( ${X_DEPEND} )
 			X? ( ${X_DEPEND} )
@@ -268,11 +261,11 @@ src_configure() {
 		myconf+=" --with-pgtk --without-x --without-ns"
 		myconf+=" --with-toolkit-scroll-bars" #836392
 		myconf+=" --without-gconf"
+		myconf+=" --without-xwidgets"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with gsettings)"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with harfbuzz)"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with m17n-lib libotf)"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with m17n-lib m17n-flt)"
-		myconf+=" $(use_with xwidgets)"
 	else
 		# X11
 		myconf+=" --with-x --without-pgtk --without-ns"
@@ -310,7 +303,7 @@ src_configure() {
 				recommended that you compile Emacs with the Athena/Lucid or the
 				Motif toolkit instead.
 			EOF
-			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 $(use_with xwidgets)"
+			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --without-xwidgets"
 			for f in motif Xaw3d athena; do
 				use ${f} && ewarn \
 					"USE flag \"${f}\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is set."
@@ -329,8 +322,6 @@ src_configure() {
 			einfo "Configuring to build with no toolkit"
 			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=no"
 		fi
-		! use gtk && use xwidgets && ewarn \
-			"USE flag \"xwidgets\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is not set."
 	fi
 
 	if use gui; then
diff --git a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-31.0.9999.ebuild b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-31.0.9999.ebuild
index d20867938cb9b..37f94d0002ece 100644
--- a/app-editors/emacs/emacs-31.0.9999.ebuild
+++ b/app-editors/emacs/emacs-31.0.9999.ebuild
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display ed
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/"
 
 LICENSE="GPL-3+ FDL-1.3+ BSD HPND MIT W3C unicode PSF-2"
-IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif +gmp gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el harfbuzz imagemagick +inotify jit jpeg kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source sqlite ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars tree-sitter valgrind webp wide-int +X xattr Xaw3d xft +xpm xwidgets zlib"
+IUSE="acl alsa aqua athena cairo dbus dynamic-loading games gfile gif +gmp gpm gsettings gtk gui gzip-el harfbuzz imagemagick +inotify jit jpeg kerberos lcms libxml2 livecd m17n-lib mailutils motif png selinux sound source sqlite ssl svg systemd +threads tiff toolkit-scroll-bars tree-sitter valgrind webp wide-int +X xattr Xaw3d xft +xpm zlib"
 
 X_DEPEND="x11-libs/libICE
 	x11-libs/libSM
@@ -67,13 +67,7 @@ X_DEPEND="x11-libs/libICE
 			>=dev-libs/m17n-lib-1.5.1
 		)
 	)
-	gtk? (
-		x11-libs/gtk+:3
-		xwidgets? (
-			net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.1=
-			x11-libs/libXcomposite
-		)
-	)
+	gtk? ( x11-libs/gtk+:3 )
 	!gtk? (
 		motif? (
 			>=x11-libs/motif-2.3:0
@@ -144,7 +138,6 @@ RDEPEND="app-emacs/emacs-common[games?,gui(-)?]
 					>=dev-libs/libotf-0.9.4
 					>=dev-libs/m17n-lib-1.5.1
 				)
-				xwidgets? ( net-libs/webkit-gtk:4.1= )
 			) )
 			!gtk? ( ${X_DEPEND} )
 			X? ( ${X_DEPEND} )
@@ -268,11 +261,11 @@ src_configure() {
 		myconf+=" --with-pgtk --without-x --without-ns"
 		myconf+=" --with-toolkit-scroll-bars" #836392
 		myconf+=" --without-gconf"
+		myconf+=" --without-xwidgets"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with gsettings)"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with harfbuzz)"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with m17n-lib libotf)"
 		myconf+=" $(use_with m17n-lib m17n-flt)"
-		myconf+=" $(use_with xwidgets)"
 	else
 		# X11
 		myconf+=" --with-x --without-pgtk --without-ns"
@@ -310,7 +303,7 @@ src_configure() {
 				recommended that you compile Emacs with the Athena/Lucid or the
 				Motif toolkit instead.
 			EOF
-			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 $(use_with xwidgets)"
+			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --without-xwidgets"
 			for f in motif Xaw3d athena; do
 				use ${f} && ewarn \
 					"USE flag \"${f}\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is set."
@@ -329,8 +322,6 @@ src_configure() {
 			einfo "Configuring to build with no toolkit"
 			myconf+=" --with-x-toolkit=no"
 		fi
-		! use gtk && use xwidgets && ewarn \
-			"USE flag \"xwidgets\" has no effect if \"gtk\" is not set."
 	fi
 
 	if use gui; then
diff --git a/app-editors/emacs/metadata.xml b/app-editors/emacs/metadata.xml
index 95c39fd0d0a7d..cd54973be3123 100644
--- a/app-editors/emacs/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-editors/emacs/metadata.xml
@@ -54,8 +54,6 @@
     <flag name="wide-int">Prefer wide Emacs integers (typically 62-bit).
     This option has an effect only on architectures where "long" and
     "long long" types have different size.</flag>
-    <flag name="xwidgets">Enable use of GTK widgets in Emacs buffers
-    (requires GTK3)</flag>
   </use>
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="savannah">emacs</remote-id>