diff --git a/x11-misc/xkeyboard-config/Manifest b/x11-misc/xkeyboard-config/Manifest
index a9e0b3cdbdbdd..08aa328ca48eb 100644
--- a/x11-misc/xkeyboard-config/Manifest
+++ b/x11-misc/xkeyboard-config/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST xkeyboard-config-2.44.tar.xz 906060 BLAKE2B 6abb485ef5c9cb1292afaed22ac72026dc22c0a08c3bf04ca29f8dd61d68cbf06e511fe095628a0ab6dec7766374318c4b5bddeb2c4da8a8a692bbbbf4b4e83b SHA512 1bd6c594c132d262863e9911cfe4e70936c82a87c118b302d032cc900767653abd6db3ee5bc8220dafa8cf65aba15e3ceae9cbd88c318dd404d3c432c8ed9c00
 DIST xkeyboard-config-2.45.tar.xz 916148 BLAKE2B 5c322500878f17ac5e30464966d448c176c1420bd187c419b47121ba596ea47fe3b3950b39bd25683e76573edb49299c2b650a23d1e2345df3edbb018c730c18 SHA512 1b82ced3e2a6386d40f9bac3735a72986b9f7387c356a706373724858a920e33ae0a9bd777a388dfdee43efc4dd6c2aa172d4b923fa2ca32e9a619f410437a7c
diff --git a/x11-misc/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config-2.44.ebuild b/x11-misc/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config-2.44.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index de4f7711af13b..0000000000000
--- a/x11-misc/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config-2.44.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..13} )
-inherit meson python-any-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="X keyboard configuration database"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig/ https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config"
-
-if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]]; then
-	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config.git"
-	inherit git-r3
-else
-	SRC_URI="https://www.x.org/releases/individual/data/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz"
-	KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos"
-fi
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-IUSE="test"
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-BDEPEND="
-	dev-lang/perl
-	dev-libs/libxslt
-	sys-devel/gettext
-	${PYTHON_DEPS}
-	test? (
-		x11-apps/xkbcomp
-		x11-libs/libxkbcommon
-		$(python_gen_any_dep '
-			dev-python/pycountry[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-			dev-python/pytest-xdist[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-			dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		')
-	)
-"
-
-python_check_deps() {
-	use test || return 0
-	python_has_version \
-		"dev-python/pycountry[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]" \
-		"dev-python/pytest-xdist[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]" \
-		"dev-python/pytest[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
-}
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	python-any-r1_pkg_setup
-}
-
-src_prepare() {
-	eapply_user
-
-	# Remove pytest timeout
-	sed -i -e "/test('pytest'/,/)$/ { s/timeout: [0-9]*/timeout: 0/ }" meson.build || die
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	local emesonargs=(
-		-Dxkb-base="${EPREFIX}/usr/share/X11/xkb"
-		-Dcompat-rules=true
-	)
-	meson_src_configure
-}