diff --git a/net-libs/nodejs/Manifest b/net-libs/nodejs/Manifest
index 3cf4e8ddbbcfa..c9fe3ad6320f0 100644
--- a/net-libs/nodejs/Manifest
+++ b/net-libs/nodejs/Manifest
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-DIST node-v24.16.0.tar.xz 55318312 BLAKE2B e5168b8c6baebe6a271bfc31ff3e9f09e30fc794d5ce1d6d092c52c70caa610d7968fa511d3e9fe34ad8bcf6310753753575d9aa1365927e87c5aca29ce4b7f2 SHA512 6edcc82dc847174c99ea7975d9bf3fcfd3201f82f21d4b517623514e17c931c87c0e9d4186d68285b2b4f5bc7a89c5a365ca67e0b9b2f2aaacc697a9e7293bb4
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 DIST node-v26.3.0.tar.xz 59811728 BLAKE2B a69f067e63883239a38397484b3f92ff4ca8a1ae651cb4f3328e6f994f16260751f3f64ff6c914aeef837d1f6deade8649979f091a044c86c8467058bb0065d2 SHA512 464a24d2536f3ead35325cfb268355fcc66a95260519174cba847efa4037ae2529c24781595b11aae45810570f41c0d2f2d7db2ed365baccda1017a7131a7efe
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-DIST nodejs-24.16.0-nghttp2-1.69.0.patch 237012 BLAKE2B 771b74cd0ca0a5ee362c6e12caeb59fd6a2707cc2a45d58a11a1f81d398116deb00818fd3718f0b18e515f6e914e5325d2696162fb59d80febddd8790b465314 SHA512 2a4e0d9bb292e112224bfb3824578bd0a2cfce75182bcdd93472536758de674cb07a4789ef98a049896cff5e8a7d17aa357f8c59da39999fb070e0d46f3d30b1
diff --git a/net-libs/nodejs/nodejs-24.16.0-r1.ebuild b/net-libs/nodejs/nodejs-24.16.0-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index a79efb8d049ba..0000000000000
--- a/net-libs/nodejs/nodejs-24.16.0-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,296 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-CONFIG_CHECK="~ADVISE_SYSCALLS"
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..14} )
-PYTHON_REQ_USE="threads(+)"
-
-inherit bash-completion-r1 check-reqs flag-o-matic linux-info
-inherit ninja-utils pax-utils python-any-r1 toolchain-funcs xdg-utils
-
-DESCRIPTION="A JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine"
-HOMEPAGE="https://nodejs.org/"
-LICENSE="Apache-1.1 Apache-2.0 BlueOak-1.0.0 BSD BSD-2 MIT npm? ( Artistic-2 )"
-
-if [[ ${PV} == *9999 ]]; then
-	inherit git-r3
-	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/nodejs/node"
-	SLOT="0"
-else
-	SRC_URI="
-		https://nodejs.org/dist/v${PV}/node-v${PV}.tar.xz
-		https://deps.gentoo.zip/net-libs/nodejs/${P}-nghttp2-1.69.0.patch
-	"
-	SLOT="0/$(ver_cut 1)"
-	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~loong ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86 ~x64-macos"
-	S="${WORKDIR}/node-v${PV}"
-fi
-
-IUSE="corepack cpu_flags_x86_sse2 debug doc +icu +inspector lto +npm pax-kernel +snapshot +ssl +system-icu +system-ssl test"
-REQUIRED_USE="inspector? ( icu ssl )
-	npm? ( ssl )
-	system-icu? ( icu )
-	system-ssl? ( ssl )
-	x86? ( cpu_flags_x86_sse2 )"
-
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-COMMON_DEPEND=">=app-arch/brotli-1.1.0:=
-	dev-db/sqlite:3
-	>=dev-cpp/ada-3.3.0:=
-	>=dev-cpp/simdutf-7.3.4:=
-	>=dev-libs/libuv-1.52.1:=
-	>=dev-libs/simdjson-4.6.1:=
-	>=net-dns/c-ares-1.34.5:=
-	>=net-libs/nghttp2-1.69.0:=
-	>=net-libs/nghttp3-1.14.0:=
-	virtual/zlib:=
-	corepack? ( !sys-apps/yarn )
-	system-icu? ( >=dev-libs/icu-73:= )
-	system-ssl? (
-		>=net-libs/ngtcp2-1.14.0:=
-		>=dev-libs/openssl-3.5.6:0=
-	)
-	!system-ssl? ( >=net-libs/ngtcp2-1.14.0:=[-gnutls] )
-	|| (
-		sys-devel/gcc:*
-		llvm-runtimes/libatomic-stub
-	)"
-BDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}
-	app-alternatives/ninja
-	sys-apps/coreutils
-	virtual/pkgconfig
-	test? ( net-misc/curl )
-	pax-kernel? ( sys-apps/elfix )"
-DEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}"
-RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}"
-
-# These are measured on a loong machine with -ggdb on, and only checked
-# if debugging flags are present in CFLAGS.
-#
-# The final link consumed a little more than 7GiB alone, so 8GiB is the lower
-# limit for memory usage. Disk usage was 19.1GiB for the build directory and
-# 1.2GiB for the installed image, so we leave some room for architectures with
-# fatter binaries and set the disk requirement to 22GiB.
-CHECKREQS_MEMORY="8G"
-CHECKREQS_DISK_BUILD="22G"
-
-PATCHES=(
-	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-24.14.0-32-bit.patch
-	"${DISTDIR}"/${P}-nghttp2-1.69.0.patch
-)
-
-pkg_pretend() {
-	if [[ ${MERGE_TYPE} != "binary" ]]; then
-		if is-flagq "-g*" && ! is-flagq "-g*0" ; then
-			einfo "Checking for sufficient disk space and memory to build ${PN} with debugging CFLAGS"
-			check-reqs_pkg_pretend
-		fi
-	fi
-}
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	python-any-r1_pkg_setup
-	linux-info_pkg_setup
-}
-
-src_prepare() {
-	tc-export AR CC CXX PKG_CONFIG
-	export V=1
-	export BUILDTYPE=Release
-
-	# fix compilation on Darwin
-	# https://code.google.com/p/gyp/issues/detail?id=260
-	sed -i -e "/append('-arch/d" tools/gyp/pylib/gyp/xcode_emulation.py || die
-
-	# proper libdir, hat tip @ryanpcmcquen https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/504
-	local LIBDIR=$(get_libdir)
-	sed -i -e "s|lib/|${LIBDIR}/|g" tools/install.py || die
-	sed -i -e "s/'lib'/'${LIBDIR}'/" deps/npm/lib/npm.js || die
-
-	# Avoid writing a depfile, not useful
-	sed -i -e "/DEPFLAGS =/d" tools/gyp/pylib/gyp/generator/make.py || die
-
-	sed -i -e "/'-O3'/d" common.gypi node.gypi || die
-
-	# debug builds. change install path, remove optimisations and override buildtype
-	if use debug; then
-		sed -i -e "s|out/Release/|out/Debug/|g" tools/install.py || die
-		BUILDTYPE=Debug
-	fi
-
-	# We need to disable mprotect on two files when it builds Bug 694100.
-	use pax-kernel &&
-		PATCHES+=( "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-24.1.0-paxmarking.patch )
-
-	use ppc64 &&
-		PATCHES+=(	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-24.11.1-restore-ppc64be.patch" )
-
-	default
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	xdg_environment_reset
-
-	# LTO compiler flags are handled by configure.py itself
-	filter-lto
-	# The warnings are *so* noisy and make build.logs massive
-	append-cxxflags $(test-flags-CXX -Wno-template-id-cdtor)
-	# https://bugs.gentoo.org/931514
-	use arm64 && append-flags $(test-flags-CXX -mbranch-protection=none)
-
-	local myconf=(
-		--ninja
-		--shared-ada
-		--shared-brotli
-		--shared-cares
-		--shared-libuv
-		--shared-nghttp2
-		--shared-nghttp3
-		--shared-ngtcp2
-		--shared-simdjson
-		--shared-simdutf
-		--shared-sqlite
-		--shared-zlib
-	)
-	use debug && myconf+=( --debug )
-	use lto && myconf+=( --enable-lto )
-	if use system-icu; then
-		myconf+=( --with-intl=system-icu )
-	elif use icu; then
-		myconf+=( --with-intl=full-icu )
-	else
-		myconf+=( --with-intl=none )
-	fi
-	use corepack || myconf+=( --without-corepack )
-	use inspector || myconf+=( --without-inspector )
-	use npm || myconf+=( --without-npm )
-	use snapshot || myconf+=( --without-node-snapshot )
-	if use ssl; then
-		use system-ssl && myconf+=( --shared-openssl --openssl-use-def-ca-store )
-	else
-		myconf+=( --without-ssl )
-	fi
-
-	local myarch=""
-	case "${ARCH}:${ABI}" in
-		*:amd64) myarch="x64";;
-		*:arm) myarch="arm";;
-		*:arm64) myarch="arm64";;
-		loong:lp64*) myarch="loong64";;
-		riscv:lp64*) myarch="riscv64";;
-		*:ppc64) myarch="ppc64";;
-		*:x32) myarch="x32";;
-		*:x86) myarch="ia32";;
-		*) myarch="${ABI}";;
-	esac
-
-	GYP_DEFINES="linux_use_gold_flags=0
-		linux_use_bundled_binutils=0
-		linux_use_bundled_gold=0" \
-	"${EPYTHON}" configure.py \
-		--prefix="${EPREFIX}"/usr \
-		--dest-cpu=${myarch} \
-		"${myconf[@]}" || die
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	eninja -C out/Release
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	local LIBDIR="${ED}/usr/$(get_libdir)"
-	default
-
-	pax-mark -m "${ED}"/usr/bin/node
-
-	if use doc; then
-		docinto html
-		dodoc -r "${S}"/doc/*
-	fi
-
-	if use npm; then
-		keepdir /etc/npm
-		echo "NPM_CONFIG_GLOBALCONFIG=${EPREFIX}/etc/npm/npmrc" > "${T}"/50npm
-		doenvd "${T}"/50npm
-
-		# Install bash completion for `npm`
-		local tmp_npm_completion_file="$(TMPDIR="${T}" mktemp -t npm.XXXXXXXXXX)"
-		"${ED}/usr/bin/npm" completion > "${tmp_npm_completion_file}"
-		newbashcomp "${tmp_npm_completion_file}" npm
-
-		# Move man pages
-		doman "${LIBDIR}"/node_modules/npm/man/man{1,5,7}/*
-
-		# Clean up
-		rm -f "${LIBDIR}"/node_modules/npm/{.mailmap,.npmignore,Makefile}
-
-		local find_exp="-or -name"
-		local find_name=()
-		for match in "AUTHORS*" "CHANGELOG*" "CONTRIBUT*" "README*" \
-			".travis.yml" ".eslint*" ".wercker.yml" ".npmignore" \
-			"*.bat" "*.cmd"; do
-			find_name+=( ${find_exp} "${match}" )
-		done
-
-		# Remove various development and/or inappropriate files and
-		# useless docs of dependend packages.
-		find "${LIBDIR}"/node_modules \
-			\( -type d -name examples \) -or \( -type f \( \
-				-iname "LICEN?E*" \
-				"${find_name[@]}" \
-			\) \) -exec rm -rf "{}" \;
-	fi
-
-	use corepack &&
-		"${D}"/usr/bin/corepack enable --install-directory "${D}"/usr/bin
-
-	mv "${ED}"/usr/share/doc/node "${ED}"/usr/share/doc/${PF} || die
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	local drop_tests=(
-		test/parallel/test-dns.js
-		test/parallel/test-dns-resolveany-bad-ancount.js
-		test/parallel/test-dns-setserver-when-querying.js
-		test/parallel/test-dotenv.js
-		test/parallel/test-fs-mkdir.js
-		test/parallel/test-fs-read-stream.js
-		test/parallel/test-fs-utimes-y2K38.js
-		test/parallel/test-fs-watch-recursive-add-file.js
-		test/parallel/test-http2-client-set-priority.js
-		test/parallel/test-http2-priority-event.js
-		test/parallel/test-process-euid-egid.js
-		test/parallel/test-process-get-builtin.mjs
-		test/parallel/test-process-initgroups.js
-		test/parallel/test-process-setgroups.js
-		test/parallel/test-process-uid-gid.js
-		test/parallel/test-release-npm.js
-		test/parallel/test-socket-write-after-fin-error.js
-		test/parallel/test-strace-openat-openssl.js
-		test/sequential/test-tls-session-timeout.js
-		test/sequential/test-util-debug.js
-	)
-	use inspector ||
-		drop_tests+=(
-			test/parallel/test-inspector-emit-protocol-event.js
-			test/parallel/test-inspector-network-arbitrary-data.js
-			test/parallel/test-inspector-network-domain.js
-			test/parallel/test-inspector-network-fetch.js
-			test/parallel/test-inspector-network-http.js
-			test/sequential/test-watch-mode.mjs
-		)
-	rm -f "${drop_tests[@]}" || die "disabling tests failed"
-
-	out/${BUILDTYPE}/cctest || die
-	"${EPYTHON}" tools/test.py --mode=${BUILDTYPE,,} --flaky-tests=dontcare -J message parallel sequential || die
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	if use npm; then
-		ewarn "remember to run: source /etc/profile if you plan to use nodejs"
-		ewarn " in your current shell"
-	fi
-}