diff --git a/dev-python/cachetools/Manifest b/dev-python/cachetools/Manifest
index 7def1ab51e43..7522a24e023a 100644
--- a/dev-python/cachetools/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/cachetools/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 DIST cachetools-5.5.2.tar.gz 28380 BLAKE2B ff0f838bdcf3ff29a466829a34e80c83a0d15763039bc9d81e254daf150bbd39a42a04b4541be06d7beaa938561a1d35646a83eb22474baccd33479d5a56b53e SHA512 9969eb5ca092174975a79e664594842b4ae4f671bc17ae3e3d2d286b164eb408af254d6b40358dcbe5e4341fc6a0ef928e192eb1432696ed7654729062555a29
-DIST cachetools-6.0.0b3.tar.gz 29181 BLAKE2B 8dee80202f141b534372d3abe3a44f3e26d8e9b65433006bc61057d4d2f603bb0acb9bc1e9c66e732235f878a8cbc7c10c6d732f654ad076e02e5a430ef0191e SHA512 8dc36cb6f804a600fc59f900e40c13dc907e58f87fdf7b336d5060a3c7424c8769742f39a1cef7fed6f8af3e88c8f9b4a29fd13d9caea00ab97b4abb8197cc22
 DIST cachetools-6.0.0b4.tar.gz 30050 BLAKE2B a495ba3244f18a9b8fc7c9b1226c34ca4019660d41afee07963f114e5915faec36b31dc0ab74e2be9a87462641252a85f8629072c24f3df908bff805b1ef5e57 SHA512 89861cb48c922d7e61cd03fec3b0836029814bc4e90ae0047deaf8e8d878069a74e6f4cb69b0fb490564623cda0ce3fe8bf4c4f65939e1612e2ac9130ad46b8f
diff --git a/dev-python/cachetools/cachetools-6.0.0_beta3.ebuild b/dev-python/cachetools/cachetools-6.0.0_beta3.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index b4586c26ea75..000000000000
--- a/dev-python/cachetools/cachetools-6.0.0_beta3.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} pypy3 pypy3_11 )
-
-inherit distutils-r1 pypi
-
-DESCRIPTION="Extensible memoizing collections and decorators"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://github.com/tkem/cachetools/
-	https://pypi.org/project/cachetools/
-"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86"
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest