diff --git a/kde-frameworks/syntax-highlighting/Manifest b/kde-frameworks/syntax-highlighting/Manifest
index 1a4096caea6c..89ae07c8d526 100644
--- a/kde-frameworks/syntax-highlighting/Manifest
+++ b/kde-frameworks/syntax-highlighting/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-DIST syntax-highlighting-6.18.0.tar.xz 3715588 BLAKE2B b8e680de8e53025b88a4903ce47ec83ae6101cec11354adf03084429777df1ecdebf3a11799b7795fd3207e65dbe52bfe8df89dbd4f47996aa313c57dab1a850 SHA512 65262576b3d6a020617658f3e7fd988e236001ac7461735ab085ea378e32dde3eef6fe5ed4c16a57e186ecfb0d8ba9916899e3cc1045ca271c73cf22cb0a41c8
 DIST syntax-highlighting-6.20.0.tar.xz 3767856 BLAKE2B 9cde29cc60dcf6a9c712eff4d1c11890a11f831fc8ecaa23508aa048b293d82c7dbdd6650115ae1fd83770ddda8caac101a5330ba593241464a7aca4b6c60569 SHA512 5afc22f4b851703f5c734130ada07b6f7053d2e48605e95dbfee68a1537c212c8a7479e916bff21dd97b4befb68a05cd4ffea469644c1e840ab1c3f518a2f9b8
 DIST syntax-highlighting-6.21.0.tar.xz 3784916 BLAKE2B 7ab7bd890813d96212307af3a848cb28543b4b8cde6c90a4822cc32fa55e06742aad47a20699bdd02cfdd3c13f58883db8573402969453992cb377156b76bccb SHA512 8ea309c0a71d0ce97e7ad2e4d0e7b89484c7912c4dc97cb8286b9470abd10f96326606e7e5d155e71b38dd7fb31d6efa090de17b980adf7bd5a2def8174dfdf9
diff --git a/kde-frameworks/syntax-highlighting/syntax-highlighting-6.18.0.ebuild b/kde-frameworks/syntax-highlighting/syntax-highlighting-6.18.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 5dd915590b9a..000000000000
--- a/kde-frameworks/syntax-highlighting/syntax-highlighting-6.18.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-ECM_TEST="forceoptional"
-QTMIN=6.7.2
-inherit ecm frameworks.kde.org
-
-DESCRIPTION="Framework for syntax highlighting"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 arm64 ~loong ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
-IUSE=""
-
-# examples: dev-qt/qtbase[printsupport,widgets]
-RDEPEND="
-	>=dev-qt/qtbase-${QTMIN}:6[gui,network]
-	>=dev-qt/qtdeclarative-${QTMIN}:6
-"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	dev-libs/xerces-c
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	dev-lang/perl
-	>=dev-qt/qttools-${QTMIN}:6[linguist]
-"