diff --git a/dev-libs/link-grammar/Manifest b/dev-libs/link-grammar/Manifest
index 219d8767dc3d3..3a171948fca89 100644
--- a/dev-libs/link-grammar/Manifest
+++ b/dev-libs/link-grammar/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST link-grammar-5.12.4.tar.gz 4720724 BLAKE2B 6573895298128165d7f840a13aad124418dbd1b9c70436dbe2bd65b3fd1883777e72da13f5196031696edb7cdc6c9d86acd5fdd4d1aa8fb295a136b2ba0568cf SHA512 fd5318c21202c17902de996882fd8630c7e95622b8ebe6877a334df22ff678a6040e0519bdabfa1138aaefdf3a7c20cbfe9e65bdce4dfe568729c9ba5a2d6fe5
 DIST link-grammar-5.12.5.tar.gz 4727809 BLAKE2B 76654a94bb1222761bc9107f2e129d6c7606e4cc0fa03b4564705714c8ac35f9562c28d66924b24143c8bbd6365f77714ad233f163f8f83de1da73ac66213f07 SHA512 2637d6b571ae027d8813da188a555a8b91afa0a216921842b43e4cf6aa4d799ea5342fe17081c13346c6bbecc46032765b6f5d978b53cee570e329b6b141094b
diff --git a/dev-libs/link-grammar/link-grammar-5.12.4.ebuild b/dev-libs/link-grammar/link-grammar-5.12.4.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 814820f478ece..0000000000000
--- a/dev-libs/link-grammar/link-grammar-5.12.4.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,116 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} )
-
-inherit autotools python-r1 out-of-source
-
-DESCRIPTION="A Syntactic English parser"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.abisource.com/projects/link-grammar/ https://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/"
-SRC_URI="https://www.gnucash.org/link-grammar/downloads/${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="LGPL-2.1"
-SLOT="0/5"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ppc ppc64 ~riscv sparc ~x86"
-IUSE="aspell +hunspell python"
-REQUIRED_USE="python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
-
-# XXX: sqlite is automagic
-# Does not build with >=sci-mathematics/minisat-2, bug #593662
-RDEPEND="
-	dev-db/sqlite:3
-	dev-libs/libpcre2:=
-	aspell? ( app-text/aspell )
-	hunspell? ( app-text/hunspell )
-	python? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-BDEPEND="
-	dev-lang/swig:0
-	dev-build/autoconf-archive
-	sys-devel/flex
-	virtual/pkgconfig"
-
-QA_CONFIG_IMPL_DECL_SKIP=(
-	# _AC_UNDECLARED_BUILTIN false positive
-	strchr
-)
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	if use aspell && use hunspell; then
-		ewarn "You have enabled 'aspell' and 'hunspell' support, but both cannot coexist,"
-		ewarn "only hunspell will be built. Press Ctrl+C and set only 'aspell' USE flag if"
-		ewarn "you want aspell support."
-	fi
-}
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-	eautoreconf
-}
-
-my_src_configure() {
-	local myconf=(
-		--disable-maintainer-mode
-		--disable-editline
-		# java is hopelessly broken, invokes maven at build time (bug #806157)
-		--disable-java-bindings
-		--disable-perl-bindings
-		--disable-sat-solver
-		--with-regexlib=pcre2
-		$(use_enable aspell)
-		$(use_enable hunspell)
-		$(usev hunspell --with-hunspell-dictdir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/myspell)
-		# requires flex, since reflex support is flaky, #890158
-		LEX="flex"
-	)
-
-	econf \
-		--disable-python-bindings \
-		"${myconf[@]}"
-
-	if use python; then
-		python_configure() {
-			econf \
-				--enable-python-bindings \
-				"${myconf[@]}"
-		}
-		python_foreach_impl run_in_build_dir python_configure
-	fi
-}
-
-my_src_compile() {
-	local -x MAIN_BUILD_DIR="${BUILD_DIR}"
-	default
-
-	if use python; then
-		python_compile() {
-			emake -C bindings/python \
-				VPATH="${S}:${MAIN_BUILD_DIR}" \
-				_clinkgrammar_la_DEPENDENCIES="${MAIN_BUILD_DIR}"/link-grammar/liblink-grammar.la \
-				_clinkgrammar_la_LIBADD="${MAIN_BUILD_DIR}"/link-grammar/liblink-grammar.la
-		}
-		python_foreach_impl run_in_build_dir python_compile
-	fi
-}
-
-my_src_install() {
-	local -x MAIN_BUILD_DIR="${BUILD_DIR}"
-	default
-
-	if use python; then
-		python_install() {
-			emake -C bindings/python \
-				VPATH="${S}:${MAIN_BUILD_DIR}" \
-				_clinkgrammar_la_DEPENDENCIES="${MAIN_BUILD_DIR}"/link-grammar/liblink-grammar.la \
-				_clinkgrammar_la_LIBADD="${MAIN_BUILD_DIR}"/link-grammar/liblink-grammar.la \
-				DESTDIR="${D}" \
-				install
-		}
-		python_foreach_impl run_in_build_dir python_install
-	fi
-
-	# no static archives
-	find "${ED}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
-}