diff --git a/dev-python/rapidfuzz/Manifest b/dev-python/rapidfuzz/Manifest
index 156550619d635..6e2f9ea3ce8bc 100644
--- a/dev-python/rapidfuzz/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/rapidfuzz/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1 @@
-DIST rapidfuzz-3.5.2.tar.gz 1524315 BLAKE2B 0877a38f3d4229b12944ede688891f5cc401ac644439d93e02a424370ab0e64eebab283de8d921a6e51ff622e425f8ba3b4f13f4eb16f0764440d9c62eca2c50 SHA512 65f7041558c1932ca916faa3c165f62694c7b261d626eb87579e25cd544e9be5bf6da073b6ee621ba2eba4662183315836acb0deda9bb33c1dc927e692438754
-DIST rapidfuzz-3.6.0.tar.gz 1560666 BLAKE2B b0e36a63b68ab2cfdd79c551a9550f6eb763433de4e7f38a81fe8cf05fa2c84a2299f28c2ebeeccfe6ac6d003b181cb810cfb14b578c5b8eade6d77918485278 SHA512 3cd4b85ecd4b6d2fe95e16a7db6d9e936ca82ad8e17a9543609ecd50c14c9a74a3ef6454b1f7a077be0138a14f585ec0729c7e84725fb985595f403dd2705ef2
 DIST rapidfuzz-3.6.1.tar.gz 1559239 BLAKE2B 50d2b2f1b1a62ad1a0a4a2300977d990a484f0a8033da6dd37531a5b603c0b28fe9a1a0e590ca9dc96bd57412864b50cf7694529127e9d26f5ef35daca6c0786 SHA512 17b40c9c3f94277340568f32ef121b277882e9191ad445df930cb394adb47bc4207008932550e74990af0d284c7af00e8ea3003114113a109a629117ebd9859c
diff --git a/dev-python/rapidfuzz/rapidfuzz-3.5.2.ebuild b/dev-python/rapidfuzz/rapidfuzz-3.5.2.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 644ba9836ad4f..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/rapidfuzz/rapidfuzz-3.5.2.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2022-2023 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_EXT=1
-# custom wrapper over setuptools
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=standalone
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( pypy3 python3_{10..12} )
-
-inherit distutils-r1 multiprocessing pypi
-
-DESCRIPTION="Rapid fuzzy string matching in Python using various string metrics"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://github.com/maxbachmann/RapidFuzz/
-	https://pypi.org/project/rapidfuzz/
-"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~loong ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86"
-
-# all these are header-only libraries
-DEPEND="
-	>=dev-cpp/taskflow-3.0.0
-	<dev-cpp/rapidfuzz-cpp-3
-	>=dev-cpp/rapidfuzz-cpp-2.2.3
-	dev-python/numpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	>=dev-python/cython-3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/rapidfuzz-capi[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/scikit-build-0.16.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	test? (
-		dev-python/hypothesis[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pytest-xdist[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	)
-"
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
-
-src_prepare() {
-	# sterilize build flags
-	sed -i -e '/CMAKE_INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION/d' CMakeLists.txt || die
-	# remove bundled libraries
-	rm -r extern || die
-	# force recythonization
-	find src -name '*.cxx' -delete || die
-
-	distutils-r1_src_prepare
-
-	export RAPIDFUZZ_BUILD_EXTENSION=1
-}
-
-python_test() {
-	local -x PYTEST_DISABLE_PLUGIN_AUTOLOAD=1
-	epytest -p xdist -n "$(makeopts_jobs)" --dist=worksteal
-}
diff --git a/dev-python/rapidfuzz/rapidfuzz-3.6.0.ebuild b/dev-python/rapidfuzz/rapidfuzz-3.6.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index f6910b8aeb0eb..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/rapidfuzz/rapidfuzz-3.6.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2022-2023 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_EXT=1
-# custom wrapper over setuptools
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=standalone
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( pypy3 python3_{10..12} )
-
-inherit distutils-r1 multiprocessing pypi
-
-DESCRIPTION="Rapid fuzzy string matching in Python using various string metrics"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://github.com/maxbachmann/RapidFuzz/
-	https://pypi.org/project/rapidfuzz/
-"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~loong ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86"
-
-# all these are header-only libraries
-DEPEND="
-	>=dev-cpp/taskflow-3.0.0
-	>=dev-cpp/rapidfuzz-cpp-3.0.0
-	dev-python/numpy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	>=dev-python/cython-3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/rapidfuzz-capi[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	>=dev-python/scikit-build-0.16.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	test? (
-		dev-python/hypothesis[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		dev-python/pytest-xdist[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	)
-"
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest
-
-src_prepare() {
-	# sterilize build flags
-	sed -i -e '/CMAKE_INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION/d' CMakeLists.txt || die
-	# remove bundled libraries
-	rm -r extern || die
-	# force recythonization
-	find src -name '*.cxx' -delete || die
-
-	distutils-r1_src_prepare
-
-	export RAPIDFUZZ_BUILD_EXTENSION=1
-}
-
-python_compile() {
-	distutils-r1_python_compile
-
-	# scikit-build is broken and reuses the same build
-	# https://github.com/scikit-build/scikit-build/issues/633
-	rm -r _skbuild || die
-}
-
-python_test() {
-	local -x PYTEST_DISABLE_PLUGIN_AUTOLOAD=1
-	epytest -p xdist -n "$(makeopts_jobs)" --dist=worksteal
-}