diff --git a/app-emulation/wine-vanilla/wine-vanilla-9999.ebuild b/app-emulation/wine-vanilla/wine-vanilla-9999.ebuild
index d653eed512f51..a3201550680ae 100644
--- a/app-emulation/wine-vanilla/wine-vanilla-9999.ebuild
+++ b/app-emulation/wine-vanilla/wine-vanilla-9999.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2022-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 2022-2025 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -364,28 +364,8 @@ src_install() {
 	use abi_x86_32 && emake DESTDIR="${D}" -C ../build32 install
 	use abi_x86_64 && emake DESTDIR="${D}" -C ../build64 install # do last
 
-	# Ensure both wine64 and wine are available if USE=abi_x86_64 (wow64,
-	# -abi_x86_32, and/or EXTRA_ECONF could cause varying scenarios where
-	# one or the other could be missing and that is unexpected for users
-	# and some tools like winetricks)
-	if use abi_x86_64; then
-		if [[ -e ${ED}${WINE_PREFIX}/bin/wine64 && ! -e ${ED}${WINE_PREFIX}/bin/wine ]]; then
-			dosym wine64 ${WINE_PREFIX}/bin/wine
-			dosym wine64-preloader ${WINE_PREFIX}/bin/wine-preloader
-
-			# also install wine(1) man pages (incl. translations)
-			local man
-			for man in ../build64/loader/wine.*man; do
-				: "${man##*/wine}"
-				: "${_%.*}"
-				insinto ${WINE_DATADIR}/man/${_:+${_#.}/}man1
-				newins ${man} wine.1
-			done
-		elif [[ ! -e ${ED}${WINE_PREFIX}/bin/wine64 && -e ${ED}${WINE_PREFIX}/bin/wine ]]; then
-			dosym wine ${WINE_PREFIX}/bin/wine64
-			dosym wine-preloader ${WINE_PREFIX}/bin/wine64-preloader
-		fi
-	fi
+	# "wine64" is no longer provided, but a keep symlink for old scripts
+	use abi_x86_64 && dosym wine ${WINE_PREFIX}/bin/wine64
 
 	use perl || rm "${ED}"${WINE_DATADIR}/man/man1/wine{dump,maker}.1 \
 		"${ED}"${WINE_PREFIX}/bin/{function_grep.pl,wine{dump,maker}} || die