diff --git a/dev-ruby/io-event/Manifest b/dev-ruby/io-event/Manifest
index d918a911988b5..0ab2d97167057 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/io-event/Manifest
+++ b/dev-ruby/io-event/Manifest
@@ -3,4 +3,3 @@ DIST io-event-1.10.0.tar.gz 55073 BLAKE2B d711d716ef75ee172627130b627f0d1447a5b5
 DIST io-event-1.10.1.tar.gz 55429 BLAKE2B fbdb21a7dd01518798631c2240cfdd515428aed4142cdf311d8648638320d7c21aee1648b97e8f5231607ebc1f1bc4a21f50de6f97ba88d78199c7fe6aa22d8a SHA512 6ffe0904595f5e28239745bf8e094e1ec104723d763a96843593cc6b22e021f5ab03af128b2e2e78883958f5f9c4661dc8d6e48065eb17fdf1cbeaf08f66494c
 DIST io-event-1.5.1.tar.gz 47618 BLAKE2B 239beebca88dac137ab826df0da9f4c7a0b910a9401e46a542dd73a151009ca6d3b0d94584421a039e693e1f5e3f40e37fa98611ff8f603dc5d4bd30bc0788e3 SHA512 71f343ffdcabde14f1737574e66c198934cdf5c88db0c9dc58106da588a7156d4b36cd2a3bd0552758468bcd78c8ee3ae1d59eb0432f7e66f57e3d9dfe75fa3d
 DIST io-event-1.6.5.tar.gz 51000 BLAKE2B 72720b03c87afd220c083098114f45dd4a523bfd3145e8988644ad1112c52ba0eafc8082c3ca23f54253921ceb96d544097722c3585390f7793fb2bb58ead20b SHA512 fd8a6b9a8a2952a2114a325a630b8cc0455679c4538901573be8dd0d342389872d5ec613c70138155f996c11d550b58003a71bee75cfec599db51812e03ec042
-DIST io-event-1.7.5.tar.gz 56413 BLAKE2B 69237d03574c6acfa592e1d9f0b01d83ba8b353c0d0756f2387e0cae4467a1707516d712920ef9ff1064b74ebe80afba8effaafc50fcc398dce5cbc5aa42c013 SHA512 9c2e759285646a3dda75cc13b3c4b568406643dae39cda00f0dc086d2095d2ce3d7cb803c053b6cc659853760d4fcbafe27f234ac329725f4ec977bf93a33a18
diff --git a/dev-ruby/io-event/io-event-1.7.5.ebuild b/dev-ruby/io-event/io-event-1.7.5.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 707361c123d9a..0000000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/io-event/io-event-1.7.5.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2022-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-USE_RUBY="ruby31 ruby32 ruby33 ruby34"
-
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTENSIONS=(ext/extconf.rb)
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="readme.md"
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_GEMSPEC="${PN}.gemspec"
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_RECIPE_TEST="sus"
-
-inherit ruby-fakegem
-
-DESCRIPTION="An event loop"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/socketry/io-event"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/socketry/io-event/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="$(ver_cut 1)"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc ~x86"
-IUSE="+io-uring"
-
-RDEPEND="io-uring? ( sys-libs/liburing:= )"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-
-all_ruby_prepare() {
-	sed -i -E 's/require_relative "(.+)"/require File.expand_path("\1")/g' "${RUBY_FAKEGEM_GEMSPEC}" || die
-
-	# Avoid dependency on unpackaged covered package
-	rm -f config/sus.rb || die
-
-	if ! use io-uring ; then
-		sed -i -e "s:have_library('uring'):have_library('idonotexist_uring'):" ext/extconf.rb || die
-	fi
-}