diff --git a/dev-ruby/elasticsearch-transport/Manifest b/dev-ruby/elasticsearch-transport/Manifest
index f87000510e28a..41ae6d8b6a34e 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/elasticsearch-transport/Manifest
+++ b/dev-ruby/elasticsearch-transport/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-DIST elasticsearch-ruby-6.8.3.tar.gz 345447 BLAKE2B 6f10b4345d098b36c5b4d8e90e8745b10313de0df1f5bd9285e72f891a871bff8569318d5bd15ab5cca0ada722042affb6bd20ddb68117eb689eadc0c2a16706 SHA512 3001760ff49bf72ba9ac5e11f3338e320c828bfb245d45535325f422e438b693d1ae7a4f73ab766386a76282eca435849c670f3ad98e9431b80b402e97268f83
 DIST elasticsearch-ruby-7.17.10.tar.gz 1032424 BLAKE2B 72ef81b295c656ad319997c89bb065e17e7cda331572758642b028126ff82606b05fd9ba71cf56728428d5f438af69dc3d74f3a1e9733bf5c4869989b03890f0 SHA512 5921595d9f35f5610c999c8f686621212095786d1c2caffd133b315d2ae20154016160950af2bd6f0959a390b1615dbce3da2e43ff2aadbfd1be1b675455f17d
 DIST elasticsearch-ruby-7.17.11.tar.gz 1033022 BLAKE2B 77fb6b37d447af88a6b093bf3f08eadc6824e5499d5949a07d59e824d92e48b5dffa5bc3777ba70b25f87d67683ddcb817d03cb0947d8890f4618e1b48661000 SHA512 43e3c5d685855e26433674f4b0822caf10c829131dc3a947ab13598dd39de5baa1967d0fd3631b8c89b6f91fa7ff7422118b7c7e537803201f0cc752a3a50818
diff --git a/dev-ruby/elasticsearch-transport/elasticsearch-transport-6.8.3-r1.ebuild b/dev-ruby/elasticsearch-transport/elasticsearch-transport-6.8.3-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 1aabb17a84555..0000000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/elasticsearch-transport/elasticsearch-transport-6.8.3-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-USE_RUBY="ruby31 ruby32"
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_GEMSPEC="${PN}.gemspec"
-
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_TASK_TEST="NOTURN=true test"
-
-inherit ruby-fakegem
-
-MY_P=elasticsearch-ruby-${PV}
-DESCRIPTION="Ruby integrations for ES, elasticsearch-transport module"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-ruby"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-ruby/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${MY_P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="$(ver_cut 1-3)"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-IUSE=""
-
-ruby_add_rdepend "
-	dev-ruby/faraday:1
-	dev-ruby/multi_json
-"
-ruby_add_bdepend "
-	doc? ( dev-ruby/yard )
-	test? (
-		dev-ruby/ansi
-		dev-ruby/mocha:1.0
-		dev-ruby/pry
-		dev-ruby/rspec:3
-		dev-ruby/shoulda-context
-		dev-ruby/curb
-		dev-ruby/patron
-	)
-"
-
-RUBY_S=${MY_P}/${PN}
-
-all_ruby_prepare() {
-	# fix to work without git
-	sed -i -e 's/git ls-files/find -type f/' *.gemspec || die
-
-	# remove useless dependencies from Rakefile
-	sed -e '/bundler/d' \
-		-e '/require.*cane/,/end/d' \
-		-i Rakefile || die
-
-	# Tweak test setup to only run unit tests since we don't have a live cluster
-	sed -i -e "s/RUBY_VERSION > '1.9'/false/" \
-		-e '/module Elasticsearch/,$ s:^:#:' test/test_helper.rb || die
-}
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 6b1bf39f993f8..13bc17fc91cc6 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -535,7 +535,6 @@ sys-libs/libaal
 # packages. Masked for removal on 2024-07-01.
 dev-ruby/elasticsearch:6.8.3
 dev-ruby/elasticsearch-api:6.8.3
-dev-ruby/elasticsearch-transport:6.8.3
 
 # Arthur Zamarin <arthurzam@gentoo.org> (2024-05-31)
 # EAPI=6, maintainer-needed, incorrect LICENSE, fails to compile with