diff --git a/games-board/gnome-mines/Manifest b/games-board/gnome-mines/Manifest
index 7b8dce95eccf..a2d48b2084f8 100644
--- a/games-board/gnome-mines/Manifest
+++ b/games-board/gnome-mines/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-DIST gnome-mines-40.1.tar.xz 280768 BLAKE2B 7cde92e045a8ab3b53d6bcd00e1f65f456cf1bb62e804e82e076a44fc4529fbf365679d7d4c4c5a0527bcc668e4b2043c8b29c16da9819c72ceaf27c5c33183b SHA512 0e7ba01c298bb96dc2102b0af2c37d1c28772dd3b720dcfa48f9363ef36b14fc6c624e877a684f83a16ba9ffb9c9922403bdd73379afb1cbbbc66baf796c29c5
 DIST gnome-mines-48.1.tar.xz 331488 BLAKE2B be7b5fcf95068f9f30ff96ed2b08442fcbd102e8c33db5b50b9d1105129e4ff2be361ce55b5da3c4fb5aec890665ba16f4e2e196a6dfc544074b6cabb393cd66 SHA512 ff87bc0675e2e2a71c2d11a249fec8ab58dfb789300c3bc0696a53a4735e9eb18a95bd14e8569b6e0d13a1bf0855c6349f423d184dcfec1f747b62aec60c0f09
 DIST gnome-mines-49.0.1.tar.xz 356788 BLAKE2B 9055a365c7b96c71ae7048b8893d39b0ae437824bd19b4c4ca921c2653ff10cf32d57edd8864f0f26944c0842f74807b8173a444f224175751146fb83b9a028d SHA512 cfeecfb0a41197721ae6850e9cca9774ff2000f49ee9256eaf0f13089eb2f6eb42c5e581e149804b0f19f88ac44c070df2f3963828031e2ac8b891ed8df4194e
diff --git a/games-board/gnome-mines/gnome-mines-40.1.ebuild b/games-board/gnome-mines/gnome-mines-40.1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index b3120d49949f..000000000000
--- a/games-board/gnome-mines/gnome-mines-40.1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} )
-inherit gnome.org gnome2-utils meson python-any-r1 vala xdg
-
-DESCRIPTION="Clear hidden mines from a minefield"
-HOMEPAGE="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-mines"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3+ CC-BY-SA-3.0"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm arm64 ~loong ~riscv x86"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	>=dev-libs/glib-2.40:2
-	dev-libs/libgee:0.8
-	>=x11-libs/gtk+-3.24:3
-	>=dev-libs/libgnome-games-support-1.7.1:1=
-	>=gnome-base/librsvg-2.32.0:2
-"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-BDEPEND="
-	${PYTHON_DEPS}
-	$(vala_depend)
-	dev-libs/appstream-glib
-	dev-libs/libxml2:2
-	dev-util/itstool
-	>=sys-devel/gettext-0.19.8
-	virtual/pkgconfig
-	gnome-base/librsvg:2[vala]
-"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-	vala_setup
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	xdg_pkg_postinst
-	gnome2_schemas_update
-}
-
-pkg_postrm() {
-	xdg_pkg_postrm
-	gnome2_schemas_update
-}