diff --git a/app-xemacs/ebuild-mode/Manifest b/app-xemacs/ebuild-mode/Manifest
index 007708032373..6829bd520176 100644
--- a/app-xemacs/ebuild-mode/Manifest
+++ b/app-xemacs/ebuild-mode/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST ebuild-mode-1.78.tar.xz 51124 BLAKE2B 21267b78de39be96a726ef7d044fe85a43c0782e0a10b427af25b00366f271f6f8a04a2493026ae633a3accd644ff6c73f2050896c59844b6decc78e4dd8279d SHA512 a4a637f6c138e4dfde58cee9484927dce9271f3c1d801d105c73c5a9cefef530e6eced74a55223a638613d9381f590741ba4ea96f638f2c5976f4fe71757a07c
 DIST ebuild-mode-1.79.tar.xz 51536 BLAKE2B fd53b083ca72854e33ecc81c86a5d972cd3efa3768fa5250b4c9771ad7989f751a12563a37048af5161f0634b6b92512566159b338cd7303fdd586a50334f193 SHA512 c659851eea7e5c6c5796cb9d6c5a6daf062cdc6aa64406125aa8f48d59433191e7b34894545e8c70e4b9deaa40b4df5a1de7560974c78e45e8ab8d9da99c78f8
diff --git a/app-xemacs/ebuild-mode/ebuild-mode-1.78.ebuild b/app-xemacs/ebuild-mode/ebuild-mode-1.78.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 67ffead8cd81..000000000000
--- a/app-xemacs/ebuild-mode/ebuild-mode-1.78.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
-
-inherit optfeature
-
-DESCRIPTION="Emacs modes for editing ebuilds and other Gentoo specific files"
-HOMEPAGE="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Emacs"
-SRC_URI="https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/emacs/${P}.tar.xz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2+"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ~hppa x86"
-
-RDEPEND=">=app-editors/xemacs-21.5.35
-	app-xemacs/sh-script"
-BDEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-
-EMACS="${EPREFIX}/usr/bin/xemacs"
-EMACSFLAGS="-batch -q -no-site-file"
-
-src_compile() {
-	${EMACS} ${EMACSFLAGS} \
-		-eval "(add-to-list 'load-path nil)" \
-		-f batch-byte-compile \
-		ebuild-mode.el gentoo-newsitem-mode.el || die
-
-	${EMACS} ${EMACSFLAGS} \
-		-eval "(setq autoload-package-name \"${PN}\")" \
-		-eval "(setq generated-autoload-file \"${S}/auto-autoloads.el\")" \
-		-l autoload -f batch-update-autoloads \
-		ebuild-mode.el gentoo-newsitem-mode.el || die
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	emake check EMACS="${EMACS}" EMACSFLAGS="${EMACSFLAGS}"
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	insinto /usr/lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/${PN}
-	doins ebuild-mode.{el,elc} ebuild-mode-keywords.el \
-		gentoo-newsitem-mode.{el,elc}
-	doins auto-autoloads.el
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	optfeature "ebuild commands support" sys-apps/portage
-	optfeature "additional development tools" dev-util/pkgdev
-	optfeature "ebuild QA utilities" dev-util/pkgcheck
-}