diff --git a/app-emacs/persist/Manifest b/app-emacs/persist/Manifest
index f027c75686725..006840438e6fc 100644
--- a/app-emacs/persist/Manifest
+++ b/app-emacs/persist/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-DIST persist-0.6.1.tar.gz 6777 BLAKE2B 4e5ae7cef591fcfb7fd7084e38294bc6000d9b1ed2d9b83ea54c1f6fe4f4cbb4144df51a5df9fcc654d459c58e105e58c53cfe841df0eeeafd95ed127797cb2d SHA512 e7b2d2e09cea26a37142d66e95f640e37640ebcf8434b284650c6126475c8844476c164b00ffc3cbecb021bb6963a19ede2720ae2e892d45d8986ede6de3f28a
 DIST persist-0.7.tar.xz 5960 BLAKE2B dc34d56cfef8a0cf109d55ea8a4ec725a8adb4cf5e3749ee5c0601eada19225445f99c4617380685517dbe13be7bb04830b769d084be6dea51cc21bcb6f8d403 SHA512 e3032c5471b677b80191a7d4a0a4ba77c20ae69f9fc00e8388a8c3696e554c07956d86fa7e174a44fb78b90e905189bc30e8cee6a67a0ce684339cdb7a3f5d5c
 DIST persist-0.8.tar.xz 5976 BLAKE2B 23d7c5c07675799d56a1a0b2d262b3317c9b2b21c1d0f9e9e9a8fd7cafc659414345ff3583e1ba45d90768751f36c9f67c5d4da15e70b22393b573cd23b4b5b2 SHA512 0a03a0b249907a7830a90385376ff20cdbef62d9387496e17c1805d434459cf3a801fc929dd4e7b78efc3389a4d4944e08ad623022d56487e755fbde711fa7f7
diff --git a/app-emacs/persist/persist-0.6.1.ebuild b/app-emacs/persist/persist-0.6.1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index cb602dc28af50..0000000000000
--- a/app-emacs/persist/persist-0.6.1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-[[ "${PV}" == "0.6.1" ]] && COMMIT="5ea8f32ef50ce2b444d6918e17eedce9f74629af"
-
-inherit elisp
-
-DESCRIPTION="Persist variables between Emacs sessions"
-HOMEPAGE="https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/persist.html"
-SRC_URI="https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=emacs/elpa.git;a=snapshot;h=${COMMIT};sf=tgz
-	-> ${P}.tar.gz"
-S="${WORKDIR}/elpa-${COMMIT:0:7}"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3+"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ~x86"
-
-# ELISP_TEXINFO="${PN}.texi"    # Broken.
-SITEFILE="50${PN}-gentoo.el"
-
-elisp-enable-tests ert test -l test/persist-tests.el
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-
-	# Skip failing tests. Tests are marked as "WORK IN PROGRESS" at the
-	# top of the file.
-	local -a skip_tests=(
-		test-persist-save-hash
-	)
-	local skip_test=""
-	for skip_test in "${skip_tests[@]}"; do
-		sed -i "/${skip_test}/a (ert-skip nil)" test/persist-tests.el || die
-	done
-}