diff --git a/sys-apps/pkgcore/Manifest b/sys-apps/pkgcore/Manifest
index b0a799d1be69e..a93c1d399ce2a 100644
--- a/sys-apps/pkgcore/Manifest
+++ b/sys-apps/pkgcore/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 DIST pkgcore-0.12.10.tar.gz 625285 BLAKE2B e6d8aeec37e9f5379cc12ca9ff502bbfd8ab355087be63160b9a03feddb5c792cc0ef01d338926e3217ee01859fca5a84aa710db8e224dde8e2befc59e3fafad SHA512 8b5159a06e8291be1663de077ac089b0cfc0da1334111ee66cb6c3b627bb29ecbc7fa6b4727fef1d4c9ac93889a7de787114d07071157a1fc1ed0b5143ebe12f
-DIST pkgcore-0.12.9.tar.gz 624918 BLAKE2B 190ccae01862b7e498dabcab5e8716ab0f3ed732eeb0469a0ca39f5e201c75ea19575f49be29a6d36b3acad8d5252528dc5e76444cd21fec25681a9350b93875 SHA512 2e391f9ae2baacaaec025c4b6cd7fd7c7757d7815d8bc62aec0f09e4fdbf7fc99ce832bc2c3ce15013fda860465ca19f27377935dc535a286446e548e08be6cd
diff --git a/sys-apps/pkgcore/pkgcore-0.12.9.ebuild b/sys-apps/pkgcore/pkgcore-0.12.9.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index c9746dc7c7452..0000000000000
--- a/sys-apps/pkgcore/pkgcore-0.12.9.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
-DISTUTILS_IN_SOURCE_BUILD=1
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-if [[ ${PV} == *9999 ]] ; then
-	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/pkgcore/pkgcore.git"
-	inherit git-r3
-else
-	KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86 ~x64-macos"
-	SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
-fi
-
-DESCRIPTION="a framework for package management"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/pkgcore/pkgcore"
-
-LICENSE="BSD MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	>=app-shells/bash-5.0
-	dev-python/lxml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
-if [[ ${PV} == *9999 ]]; then
-	RDEPEND+=" ~dev-python/snakeoil-9999[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
-else
-	RDEPEND+=" >=dev-python/snakeoil-0.9.6[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
-fi
-BDEPEND="
-	test? (
-		>=dev-python/pytest-6[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-vcs/git
-	)
-"
-
-distutils_enable_tests setup.py
-
-src_test() {
-	local -x PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=
-	distutils-r1_src_test
-}
-
-python_install_all() {
-	local DOCS=( NEWS.rst )
-	[[ ${PV} == *9999 ]] || doman man/*
-	distutils-r1_python_install_all
-}