diff --git a/app-emulation/fuse-utils/Manifest b/app-emulation/fuse-utils/Manifest
index 742163da58fc0..2bbfe4577c048 100644
--- a/app-emulation/fuse-utils/Manifest
+++ b/app-emulation/fuse-utils/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-DIST fuse-utils-1.4.3.tar.gz 501006 BLAKE2B 0637fe05b71416e89eb61e3618ff45bd71250201924fb3741a4c5b9898d09b30acecba9957baeaa864c2c9cfe1bcb9cb38a2af83368bc5729221cec36a1eda47 SHA512 13404d1be81a2de9262cd79cce9dd8dc3f17238fdbb75da8a724b76b0976c03f34da9978af36b808103fedcf3f5d5da4bb10f251c5510127d59ca8de5607b99e
 DIST fuse-utils-1.4.4.tar.gz 551378 BLAKE2B e692d635524ac5d2a780cb81fd63d17198398adb7e2277218c4651f6323dba6b9eeab79707924ee1ef412920a83352ebe07181efe2ee40fd6d83034a2215ade6 SHA512 390877e6f940d499ae28a2ce7b74864489b79f535d963b69aa3169c7af84638f37c9ed3a91faa82185ee876b9bb1a619cfbd738e328a12dd17d8c385c0715815
 DIST fuse-utils-1.4.5.tar.gz 554067 BLAKE2B 36d160810019aab04712228a57358df81ad9498fb491e8b91da6e3acdcc2105f943e1c09899f5499a001d7d47a11521d2ed289a93b948fe3f19094bb503b7e77 SHA512 f680628d26a3848b86197ee6503b9ccd652c5af00d223235ad9961e2e9b6b1cbea330c84e743e963a855f63efc6854545837d46e0eeb7d480df668a0812ea6c7
diff --git a/app-emulation/fuse-utils/fuse-utils-1.4.3-r3.ebuild b/app-emulation/fuse-utils/fuse-utils-1.4.3-r3.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index e2dc6e59556dc..0000000000000
--- a/app-emulation/fuse-utils/fuse-utils-1.4.3-r3.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-inherit autotools
-
-DESCRIPTION="Utils for the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator by Philip Kendall"
-HOMEPAGE="https://fuse-emulator.sourceforge.net"
-SRC_URI="https://downloads.sourceforge.net/fuse-emulator/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~riscv ~x86"
-IUSE="audiofile gcrypt jpeg png zlib"
-
-RDEPEND=">=app-emulation/libspectrum-1.4.4:=[audiofile?,gcrypt?,zlib?]
-	audiofile? ( >=media-libs/audiofile-0.3.6 )
-	gcrypt? ( dev-libs/libgcrypt )
-	jpeg? ( media-libs/libjpeg-turbo:= )
-	png? ( media-libs/libpng:0 )
-	zlib? ( virtual/zlib:= )"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
-
-PATCHES=(
-	"${FILESDIR}"/remove-local-prefix.patch
-)
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-	eautoreconf
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	local myconf=(
-		$(use_with audiofile)
-		$(use_with gcrypt libgcrypt)
-		$(use_with jpeg libjpeg)
-		$(use_with png libpng)
-		$(use_with zlib)
-	)
-	econf "${myconf[@]}"
-}