diff --git a/kde-plasma/ksystemstats/Manifest b/kde-plasma/ksystemstats/Manifest
index e3bc253b7ee90..2dd48139b8c39 100644
--- a/kde-plasma/ksystemstats/Manifest
+++ b/kde-plasma/ksystemstats/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 DIST ksystemstats-6.4.5.tar.xz 156580 BLAKE2B 17d60d41d016739fca6039bd79f8269cc659567792e434b09a7eda5aa486c543b7d9c9500fc5155f9eedd616f5f498d8a2884967d65bd7b578473de4b063e2e6 SHA512 aadd050eb0acbfb1402fdbc2e7419a1eb89e4a4b9982353b857f8c3e17b86755b3c49ab2cde4c8446ca9a6a690df39eccdebf7357c3ad7f331b588bf76a46303
-DIST ksystemstats-6.5.3.tar.xz 159388 BLAKE2B 53fbca00d00987c91a0eec066ecdf91e37c70af3772c14e87ad6e0bf520411f3080baa6ff069fe7a74bd3e8d506de386fbc3f3c8e0b07dc9362675a70650e2ac SHA512 52ee31f369c9978c390b42d4e120fb5ccdf2765487d11667999944a723e3127a8c22524794c161746a14e5c28dafb79f7b27e33ec0d6e9c8fb66e625e22d517a
 DIST ksystemstats-6.5.4.tar.xz 159372 BLAKE2B b76f79306d494c10b756b328e90295c7dc072100f69388b39fadaab325f021c9119a030cc3b7b18be8ae690fa53e4ecf3283fd8d785b0b10956320514db742a1 SHA512 fb267cd352223b303292dea1b9cbf4aa0acd493c241423774c48ac18a3677a62fed6896ccaa46e27e4dbf8ad388c9e0e1da4609220693d2f3fa4534c8c556d48
diff --git a/kde-plasma/ksystemstats/ksystemstats-6.5.3.ebuild b/kde-plasma/ksystemstats/ksystemstats-6.5.3.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index c54127515b73f..0000000000000
--- a/kde-plasma/ksystemstats/ksystemstats-6.5.3.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-ECM_HANDBOOK="forceoptional"
-ECM_TEST="forceoptional"
-KFMIN=6.18.0
-QTMIN=6.9.1
-inherit ecm fcaps plasma.kde.org
-
-DESCRIPTION="Plugin-based system monitoring daemon"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2+"
-SLOT="6"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
-IUSE="networkmanager"
-
-DEPEND="
-	dev-libs/libnl:3
-	>=dev-qt/qtbase-${QTMIN}:6[dbus,network]
-	>=kde-frameworks/kcoreaddons-${KFMIN}:6
-	>=kde-frameworks/kcrash-${KFMIN}:6
-	>=kde-frameworks/kdbusaddons-${KFMIN}:6
-	>=kde-frameworks/ki18n-${KFMIN}:6
-	>=kde-frameworks/kio-${KFMIN}:6
-	>=kde-frameworks/solid-${KFMIN}:6
-	>=kde-plasma/libksysguard-${KDE_CATV}:6
-	net-libs/libpcap
-	sys-apps/lm-sensors:=
-	sys-libs/libcap
-	virtual/libudev:=
-	networkmanager? ( >=kde-frameworks/networkmanager-qt-${KFMIN}:6 )
-"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-# -m 0755 to avoid suid with USE="-filecaps"
-FILECAPS=( -m 0755 cap_perfmon=ep usr/libexec/ksystemstats_intel_helper )
-
-src_configure() {
-	local mycmakeargs=(
-		-DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_Libcap=ON
-		$(cmake_use_find_package networkmanager KF6NetworkManagerQt)
-	)
-	ecm_src_configure
-}
-
-CMAKE_SKIP_TESTS=(
-	# bug 909312, needs virtualx but we don't care
-	ksystemstatstest
-)