diff --git a/app-editors/gnome-text-editor/Manifest b/app-editors/gnome-text-editor/Manifest
index 6fca2363148dd..d51685cbebea9 100644
--- a/app-editors/gnome-text-editor/Manifest
+++ b/app-editors/gnome-text-editor/Manifest
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-DIST gnome-text-editor-48.3.tar.xz 667388 BLAKE2B 9bc249e757d5e26eac8c7479ed9ef03dec91a7e5b5d72dccbac018f2222cbdaa5a5dd4a9cb3bc2cf2e085b287619e16c685a7d3703dfd4a7b74d4a4d0f36dc70 SHA512 0c084f96df3572c8de21560ef23ed2dcd273db3d1646a94f417e265ee9e03201dbbf62df16478712d20cb02d028b8d9e11e912009dda85268c49ef7ab66f0996
-DIST gnome-text-editor-49.1.tar.xz 695364 BLAKE2B 52f3ec17c8176228f61bede5ccf819bb4febeb67252e0382397293470d6dccfa6093764baf9b9c22a3bbabda89f635b54096d0db761c3b3a9626a475638e0544 SHA512 8097a591ca7c2c6807f973b639913afd592bc47faf80ae2fa8560b73ee6794f2e68933125dc8985eaa8742a3c436bc7beefb1df7d66d7c52cb45259978427edb
 DIST gnome-text-editor-49.2.tar.xz 699360 BLAKE2B 4fe77c981f12d84d0305126bb6f178f7dd71fa411d6a655b2ebbe715943b976c50b218d334440bfa5e3cbc93b778fbf22eba4289cbcbefa21c1477b2cebcc7b6 SHA512 6e80162fbfa2476e9049917d30e627e5d01f48edfa75beb100ef165570a73e8e5ae7d85b090406d8927e9e813aa1663cc7a4c6bfe84e6dc35289464daaf3ae23
 DIST gnome-text-editor-50.1.tar.xz 698492 BLAKE2B d37718e4132082fd74e64a99cf5ebd77b8f2fe87baabb0783b83d40665eb5a2dd46b34a4ac6aeec65609ee8a70065d79e6cfe9a63d83c3a25aff72ad17005cf6 SHA512 cfa5f234377ae3ff81552f928248fec58264df9057da33c1b2148e8a50cf08441e6cc74498c151b41e11ec1f1f17cbecfc89e79a27c6b8759e03568597b5fd14
diff --git a/app-editors/gnome-text-editor/gnome-text-editor-48.3.ebuild b/app-editors/gnome-text-editor/gnome-text-editor-48.3.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index a77d10d2bf690..0000000000000
--- a/app-editors/gnome-text-editor/gnome-text-editor-48.3.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2022-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-inherit gnome.org gnome2-utils meson xdg
-
-DESCRIPTION="A simple text editor for the GNOME desktop"
-HOMEPAGE="https://apps.gnome.org/TextEditor/"
-S="${WORKDIR}/gnome-text-editor-${PV/_/.}"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3+ CC-BY-SA-3.0"
-SLOT="0"
-
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm arm64 ~loong ~ppc64 ~riscv x86"
-
-IUSE="+editorconfig"
-
-DEPEND="
-	>=dev-libs/glib-2.80.0:2
-	>=gui-libs/gtk-4.17.3:4
-	>=gui-libs/gtksourceview-5.15.0:5
-	>=gui-libs/libadwaita-1.6.0:1
-	app-text/editorconfig-core-c
-	x11-libs/cairo
-	>=app-text/libspelling-0.3.0
-"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
-	gnome-base/gsettings-desktop-schemas
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	dev-util/glib-utils
-	dev-util/itstool
-	>=sys-devel/gettext-0.21
-	virtual/pkgconfig
-"
-
-src_configure() {
-	local emesonargs=(
-		$(meson_feature editorconfig)
-		-Dbugreport_url="https://bugs.gentoo.org"
-	)
-	meson_src_configure
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	xdg_pkg_postinst
-	gnome2_schemas_update
-}
-
-pkg_postrm() {
-	xdg_pkg_postrm
-	gnome2_schemas_update
-}
diff --git a/app-editors/gnome-text-editor/gnome-text-editor-49.1.ebuild b/app-editors/gnome-text-editor/gnome-text-editor-49.1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 88fe3115fc0c1..0000000000000
--- a/app-editors/gnome-text-editor/gnome-text-editor-49.1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2022-2026 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-inherit gnome.org gnome2-utils meson xdg
-
-DESCRIPTION="A simple text editor for the GNOME desktop"
-HOMEPAGE="https://apps.gnome.org/TextEditor/"
-S="${WORKDIR}/gnome-text-editor-${PV/_/.}"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3+ CC-BY-SA-3.0"
-SLOT="0"
-
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~loong ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
-
-IUSE="+editorconfig"
-
-DEPEND="
-	>=dev-libs/glib-2.80.0:2
-	>=gui-libs/gtk-4.19.4:4
-	>=gui-libs/gtksourceview-5.15.0:5
-	>=gui-libs/libadwaita-1.8_alpha:1
-	app-text/editorconfig-core-c
-	>=app-text/libspelling-0.4.0
-"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
-	gnome-base/gsettings-desktop-schemas
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	dev-util/glib-utils
-	dev-util/itstool
-	>=sys-devel/gettext-0.21
-	virtual/pkgconfig
-"
-
-src_configure() {
-	local emesonargs=(
-		$(meson_feature editorconfig)
-		-Dbugreport_url="https://bugs.gentoo.org"
-	)
-	meson_src_configure
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	xdg_pkg_postinst
-	gnome2_schemas_update
-}
-
-pkg_postrm() {
-	xdg_pkg_postrm
-	gnome2_schemas_update
-}