diff --git a/media-libs/vpl-gpu-rt/Manifest b/media-libs/vpl-gpu-rt/Manifest
index 45be69ee52ac..2dba65985fb0 100644
--- a/media-libs/vpl-gpu-rt/Manifest
+++ b/media-libs/vpl-gpu-rt/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-DIST vpl-gpu-rt-24.4.4.tar.gz 9185059 BLAKE2B 25438360274d456fd8fafe95a3bafe9fd2637a8a02422cb42acfd6948fafe8826d438fd1a431d7a0e95f035bd46b20f23a71585c6e3ca4d9faa0e07c02aae02b SHA512 bb5fa4213b5e142c798324e55aec6c4e3faf1d20afda3c35c4cf1d0050263b493df442961b55ff035430002dd180fc51f22b774d525a5b0c80e10e5fddb622da
 DIST vpl-gpu-rt-25.2.2.tar.gz 9194348 BLAKE2B c21f4876cbaab42085d7af5b151fe09509dae10ffbc22814225c82d4df113ba48705844431e7b0ce828c3b293ea1d1731ba60e5e05c6089d5fb1ae4d64f14f83 SHA512 7d32dec65b059e22bc10d6b82cee16fdd9eeddc4cec03fd0f078f6f696e81d8614c14f48c88a8587107f1255d28f6f08f505db6ceda7e3403d570740967ba2d9
 DIST vpl-gpu-rt-25.4.3.tar.gz 9198630 BLAKE2B 634ef08e020e2e18fd7f33fe81a65c69dbbac02c4d151531a682d5895f26bfa96ffcaee040820cdd174862ca5583f980336a474a3933f8b594aa7971a678de78 SHA512 84808e4acc11b86d00243d80034ef6e981213b04619d95b74d99e9ff93daabb2328155f3934500b12f4cd2431cff3c9f19f57452000859068d9c5933f7f85944
diff --git a/media-libs/vpl-gpu-rt/vpl-gpu-rt-24.4.4.ebuild b/media-libs/vpl-gpu-rt/vpl-gpu-rt-24.4.4.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 861810f2ef94..000000000000
--- a/media-libs/vpl-gpu-rt/vpl-gpu-rt-24.4.4.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2022-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-# NOTE: please bump with the other parts of intel's media stack, listed below
-# https://github.com/intel/vpl-gpu-rt/releases
-
-EAPI=8
-
-inherit cmake
-
-DESCRIPTION="Intel Video Processing Library GPU Runtime"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/intel/vpl-gpu-rt/"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/intel/${PN}/archive/refs/tags/intel-onevpl-${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}-intel-onevpl-${PV}"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-
-IUSE="test"
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-DEPEND="
-	media-libs/libva
-	x11-libs/libdrm[video_cards_intel]
-"
-# At runtime we need a dispatcher, libvpl is preferred but mediasdk also works
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
-	>=media-libs/libva-intel-media-driver-${PV}
-	|| (
-		media-libs/libvpl
-		media-libs/intel-mediasdk
-	)
-"
-BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
-
-src_configure() {
-	local mycmakeargs=(
-		-DBUILD_RUNTIME=ON
-		# To build the kernels we need to package the cm-compiler, use pre-built instead
-		-DBUILD_KERNELS=OFF
-		-DBUILD_TESTS="$(usex test)"
-		# This only seems to do something if we BUILD_KERNELS=ON
-		#-DBUILD_TOOLS="$(usex tools)"
-		# OpenCL only has an effect if we build kernels
-		-DENABLE_OPENCL=OFF
-	)
-	cmake_src_configure
-}