diff --git a/app-misc/recoll/Manifest b/app-misc/recoll/Manifest
index 36464019a2ce6..014862064e3af 100644
--- a/app-misc/recoll/Manifest
+++ b/app-misc/recoll/Manifest
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-DIST recoll-1.40.3.tar.gz 3217280 BLAKE2B e1e8cd0bae67087b6b34b79b9be2dde1db388740f8c2e8a222b07081ac275859780ba72a03dd319c759eae0209542ebe720f859a8a440e6d54b089858cb07257 SHA512 1f374e2f3ff721cdacd146d96e404d59554587ec30da63ffda8c9075a0b4407f70714e96a2ab3d7963f5d848096e5f295dc80bd7254ad8109e1e93732a8556a2
-DIST recoll-1.43.0.tar.gz 3263143 BLAKE2B 6c7e9740b2bf8439b5f5583281f88bd82ab5b7524ff02941d2f5f3a271d8b5a0d6d0e65e432df985a65c5d5ccffaf8c8e50a5e9b3539d5fe5c0d30fa0cc721de SHA512 1bffe39ef6339f111604720b058b5a9f0df4de5590d9253ff4d89fdb535c17a6d75d9bf7d843ddb735fcb27b64d5c42797c6321ac40845a8eae6d2f0fec08c0f
 DIST recoll-1.43.10.tar.gz 3368244 BLAKE2B af03acb9959383d643a8c4a3f5e815d313ea5f70d66cf1a7c032bf116688b3244a49e22cc004d7155e78ff9a5341118a467bb20c14268e1ee1ab69479ed999be SHA512 9dc519080b0c48f6bede1f166724eadb67d8a8bfb448071e1b22558a059a6260dc010914f4adb9ab7586e8a4f3fd80f127e3d00b0fb25887ea396b7eb206b1d4
-DIST recoll-1.43.2.tar.gz 3265963 BLAKE2B a4c93bc4cb1b9b4a78df1943641aad0aa926fc8da0ab43dc3acde7bca936c0ed4ed770a26b1a92e358b8fb0a54e3232db5d6ae5d57886e7bad821b5ed32f02f7 SHA512 73f8f7f7acf0db53fdb9e9bb7c5f606d3f1ee460a54a94dde5bb585f5e25b22f144a2f8015fa61254ff662b6774a2c8e0fcd123ef46ccfa4fa180ddec513c920
-DIST recoll-1.43.5.tar.gz 3277430 BLAKE2B 7b7abbfc6625da5a4d4370450fd43d436a3c42a4284b7fc78b177164b41cc4453fd57f1b25fca02c4d4e3553aab5d83cac531525de0db9a27e2fec9a9740f2d4 SHA512 d121407763393a84574400625998f5836207e68050a15984af790b243b27a1f10b63597c37ce065fc23fdfc888fb9d7566688d29ca518fe96519bed0ca24fdc3
 DIST recoll-1.43.6.tar.gz 3281555 BLAKE2B 543136542b52f789e284f8672a861676713de0dbd039b2141aae09f38315b98b65afe381df6fc5fc59b860f6c6d324f701bc6e45f9a1eff32416d62cd9e10fcd SHA512 edadabd4bb4816868e109d59fed6607494731e2ca5a6765f58ff08fd45f5b1cbc96d827c458bc45901dafb9fe4b52d644df5d82491442ebe448d9fdc7875e3d1
 DIST recoll-1.44.0.tar.gz 3136991 BLAKE2B 920824b2581545168809aee95fee2f5970a7c484a7f788429fd1c9c848264a1ccab28d683708535897a162199ef182afbeee3a89c4aac87c51293f39dba122c3 SHA512 26d1ef56727086eb9e82af136e0be604c0d974bf13846d1f7f5b45e73b69b399cbfa8ae7250a84b574f1856bffa2c8d14eeef5c4e50e1b6aa8966bc5d111d3f1
diff --git a/app-misc/recoll/recoll-1.40.3-r1.ebuild b/app-misc/recoll/recoll-1.40.3-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c1c9b37c162f..0000000000000
--- a/app-misc/recoll/recoll-1.40.3-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,127 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..12} )
-
-inherit linux-info optfeature python-single-r1 qmake-utils meson systemd
-
-DESCRIPTION="Personal full text search package"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.recoll.org"
-SRC_URI="https://www.recoll.org/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2+"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm64 x86"
-
-IUSE="camelcase chm +inotify qt6 session +spell systemd webengine"
-REQUIRED_USE="
-	session? ( inotify )
-	webengine? ( qt6 )
-	${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}
-"
-
-DEPEND="
-	dev-libs/libxml2:=
-	dev-libs/libxslt
-	dev-libs/xapian:=
-	virtual/zlib:=
-	virtual/libiconv
-	chm? (
-		dev-libs/chmlib
-		dev-python/pychm
-	)
-	qt6? (
-		dev-qt/qtbase:6[gui,network,widgets]
-		webengine? ( dev-qt/qtwebengine:6[widgets] )
-	)
-	session? (
-		inotify? (
-			x11-libs/libSM
-			x11-libs/libICE
-			x11-libs/libX11
-		)
-	)
-	spell? ( app-text/aspell )
-	systemd? ( sys-apps/systemd )
-	${PYTHON_DEPS}
-"
-
-BDEPEND="
-	qt6? ( dev-qt/qttools:6[linguist] )
-"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	${DEPEND}
-	app-arch/unzip
-"
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	if use inotify; then
-		local CONFIG_CHECK="~INOTIFY_USER"
-		check_extra_config
-	fi
-	python-single-r1_pkg_setup
-}
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-	python_fix_shebang filters
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	use qt6 && export QMAKE="$(qt6_get_bindir)/qmake"
-
-	local emesonargs=(
-		$(meson_use camelcase)
-		$(meson_use chm python-chm)
-		$(meson_use inotify)
-		$(meson_use qt6 qtgui)
-		$(meson_use session x11mon)
-		$(meson_use spell aspell)
-		$(meson_use spell python-aspell)
-		$(meson_use systemd)
-		$(meson_use webengine)
-		-Dfam=false
-		-Drecollq=true
-		-Dwebkit=false
-		-Dsystemd-system-unit-dir="$(systemd_get_systemunitdir)"
-		-Dsystemd-user-unit-dir="$(systemd_get_userunitdir)"
-	)
-
-	use qt6 && emesonargs+=( $(usex webengine "-Dwebpreview=true" "-Dwebpreview=false") )
-
-	meson_src_configure
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	meson_install
-	rm -rf "${D}/$(python_get_sitedir)"/*.egg-info || die
-	python_optimize
-
-	# html docs should be placed in /usr/share/doc/${PN}/html
-	rm -r "${ED}/usr/share/${PN}/doc" || die
-	find "${D}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	optfeature "XML based documents support" "dev-libs/libxslt[python] dev-libs/libxml2[python]"
-	optfeature "PDF files support" app-text/poppler
-	optfeature "PDF files with OCR support" app-text/tesseract
-	optfeature "MS Word files support" app-text/antiword
-	optfeature "Wordperfect files support" "app-text/libwpd[tools]"
-	optfeature "Lyx files support" app-office/lyx
-	optfeature "GNU Info files support" sys-apps/texinfo
-	optfeature "RAR archives support" dev-python/rarfile
-	optfeature "7zip archives support" dev-python/pylzma
-	optfeature "iCalendar files support" dev-python/icalendar
-	optfeature "Postscript files support" app-text/pstotext
-	optfeature "RTF files support" app-text/unrtf
-	optfeature "TeX files support" virtual/tex-base
-	optfeature "DVI files support" virtual/tex-base
-	optfeature "DJVU files support" app-text/djvu
-	optfeature "tags in audio files support" media-libs/mutagen
-	optfeature "tags in image files support" media-libs/exiftool
-	optfeature "Midi karaoke files support" dev-python/chardet
-}
diff --git a/app-misc/recoll/recoll-1.43.0-r1.ebuild b/app-misc/recoll/recoll-1.43.0-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index d67d6c7784fa6..0000000000000
--- a/app-misc/recoll/recoll-1.43.0-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,128 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..13} )
-
-inherit linux-info optfeature python-single-r1 qmake-utils meson systemd
-
-DESCRIPTION="Personal full text search package"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.recoll.org"
-SRC_URI="https://www.recoll.org/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2+"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86"
-
-IUSE="camelcase chm +inotify qt6 session +spell systemd webengine"
-REQUIRED_USE="
-	session? ( inotify )
-	webengine? ( qt6 )
-	${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}
-"
-
-DEPEND="
-	dev-libs/libxml2:=
-	dev-libs/libxslt
-	dev-libs/xapian:=
-	virtual/zlib:=
-	virtual/libiconv
-	chm? (
-		dev-libs/chmlib
-		dev-python/pychm
-	)
-	qt6? (
-		dev-qt/qtbase:6[gui,network,widgets]
-		webengine? ( dev-qt/qtwebengine:6[widgets] )
-	)
-	session? (
-		inotify? (
-			x11-libs/libSM
-			x11-libs/libICE
-			x11-libs/libX11
-		)
-	)
-	spell? ( app-text/aspell )
-	systemd? ( sys-apps/systemd )
-	${PYTHON_DEPS}
-"
-
-BDEPEND="
-	qt6? ( dev-qt/qttools:6[linguist] )
-"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	${DEPEND}
-	app-arch/unzip
-"
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	if use inotify; then
-		local CONFIG_CHECK="~INOTIFY_USER"
-		check_extra_config
-	fi
-	python-single-r1_pkg_setup
-}
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-	python_fix_shebang filters
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	use qt6 && export QMAKE="$(qt6_get_bindir)/qmake"
-
-	local emesonargs=(
-		$(meson_use camelcase)
-		$(meson_use chm python-chm)
-		$(meson_use inotify)
-		$(meson_use qt6 qtgui)
-		$(meson_use session x11mon)
-		$(meson_use spell aspell)
-		$(meson_use spell python-aspell)
-		$(meson_use systemd)
-		$(meson_use webengine)
-		-Dappimage=false
-		-Dfam=false
-		-Drecollq=true
-		-Dwebkit=false
-		-Dsystemd-system-unit-dir="$(systemd_get_systemunitdir)"
-		-Dsystemd-user-unit-dir="$(systemd_get_userunitdir)"
-	)
-
-	use qt6 && emesonargs+=( $(usex webengine "-Dwebpreview=true" "-Dwebpreview=false") )
-
-	meson_src_configure
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	meson_install
-	rm -rf "${D}/$(python_get_sitedir)"/*.egg-info || die
-	python_optimize
-
-	# html docs should be placed in /usr/share/doc/${PN}/html
-	rm -r "${ED}/usr/share/${PN}/doc" || die
-	find "${ED}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	optfeature "XML based documents support" "dev-libs/libxslt[python] dev-libs/libxml2[python]"
-	optfeature "PDF files support" app-text/poppler
-	optfeature "PDF files with OCR support" app-text/tesseract
-	optfeature "MS Word files support" app-text/antiword
-	optfeature "Wordperfect files support" "app-text/libwpd[tools]"
-	optfeature "Lyx files support" app-office/lyx
-	optfeature "GNU Info files support" sys-apps/texinfo
-	optfeature "RAR archives support" dev-python/rarfile
-	optfeature "7zip archives support" dev-python/pylzma
-	optfeature "iCalendar files support" dev-python/icalendar
-	optfeature "Postscript files support" app-text/pstotext
-	optfeature "RTF files support" app-text/unrtf
-	optfeature "TeX files support" virtual/tex-base
-	optfeature "DVI files support" virtual/tex-base
-	optfeature "DJVU files support" app-text/djvu
-	optfeature "tags in audio files support" media-libs/mutagen
-	optfeature "tags in image files support" media-libs/exiftool
-	optfeature "Midi karaoke files support" dev-python/chardet
-}
diff --git a/app-misc/recoll/recoll-1.43.2.ebuild b/app-misc/recoll/recoll-1.43.2.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index d347accf07057..0000000000000
--- a/app-misc/recoll/recoll-1.43.2.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,129 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..13} )
-
-inherit linux-info optfeature python-single-r1 qmake-utils meson systemd xdg-utils
-
-DESCRIPTION="Personal full text search package"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.recoll.org"
-SRC_URI="https://www.recoll.org/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2+"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86"
-
-IUSE="camelcase chm +inotify qt6 session +spell systemd webengine"
-REQUIRED_USE="
-	webengine? ( qt6 )
-	${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}
-"
-
-DEPEND="
-	dev-libs/libxml2:=
-	dev-libs/libxslt
-	dev-libs/xapian:=
-	virtual/zlib:=
-	virtual/libiconv
-	chm? (
-		dev-libs/chmlib
-		dev-python/pychm
-	)
-	qt6? (
-		dev-qt/qtbase:6[gui,network,widgets]
-		webengine? ( dev-qt/qtwebengine:6[widgets] )
-	)
-	session? (
-		x11-libs/libSM
-		x11-libs/libICE
-		x11-libs/libX11
-	)
-	spell? ( app-text/aspell )
-	systemd? ( sys-apps/systemd )
-	${PYTHON_DEPS}
-"
-
-BDEPEND="
-	qt6? ( dev-qt/qttools:6[linguist] )
-"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	${DEPEND}
-	app-arch/unzip
-"
-
-# Build happens in two stages, leading to LDFLAGS being ignored by qmake
-QA_FLAGS_IGNORED="usr/bin/recoll"
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	if use inotify; then
-		local CONFIG_CHECK="~INOTIFY_USER"
-		check_extra_config
-	fi
-	python-single-r1_pkg_setup
-}
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-	python_fix_shebang filters
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	use qt6 && export QMAKE="$(qt6_get_bindir)/qmake"
-
-	local emesonargs=(
-		$(meson_use camelcase)
-		$(meson_use chm python-chm)
-		$(meson_use inotify)
-		$(meson_use qt6 qtgui)
-		$(meson_use session x11mon)
-		$(meson_use spell aspell)
-		$(meson_use spell python-aspell)
-		$(meson_use systemd)
-		$(meson_use webengine)
-		-Dappimage=false
-		-Dfam=false
-		-Drecollq=true
-		-Dwebkit=false
-		-Dsystemd-system-unit-dir="$(systemd_get_systemunitdir)"
-		-Dsystemd-user-unit-dir="$(systemd_get_userunitdir)"
-	)
-
-	use qt6 && emesonargs+=( $(usex webengine "-Dwebpreview=true" "-Dwebpreview=false") )
-
-	meson_src_configure
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	meson_install
-	rm -rf "${D}/$(python_get_sitedir)"/*.egg-info || die
-	python_optimize
-
-	# html docs should be placed in /usr/share/doc/${PN}/html
-	rm -r "${ED}/usr/share/${PN}/doc" || die
-	find "${ED}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	xdg_icon_cache_update
-	optfeature "XML based documents support" "dev-libs/libxslt[python] dev-libs/libxml2[python]"
-	optfeature "PDF files support" "app-text/poppler[utils]"
-	optfeature "PDF files with OCR support" app-text/tesseract
-	optfeature "MS Word files support" app-text/antiword
-	optfeature "Wordperfect files support" "app-text/libwpd[tools]"
-	optfeature "Lyx files support" app-office/lyx
-	optfeature "GNU Info files support" sys-apps/texinfo
-	optfeature "RAR archives support" dev-python/rarfile
-	optfeature "7zip archives support" dev-python/pylzma
-	optfeature "iCalendar files support" dev-python/icalendar
-	optfeature "Postscript files support" app-text/pstotext
-	optfeature "RTF files support" app-text/unrtf
-	optfeature "TeX files support" virtual/tex-base
-	optfeature "DVI files support" virtual/tex-base
-	optfeature "DJVU files support" app-text/djvu
-	optfeature "tags in audio files support" media-libs/mutagen
-	optfeature "tags in image files support" media-libs/exiftool
-	optfeature "Midi karaoke files support" dev-python/chardet
-}
diff --git a/app-misc/recoll/recoll-1.43.5.ebuild b/app-misc/recoll/recoll-1.43.5.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index d347accf07057..0000000000000
--- a/app-misc/recoll/recoll-1.43.5.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,129 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..13} )
-
-inherit linux-info optfeature python-single-r1 qmake-utils meson systemd xdg-utils
-
-DESCRIPTION="Personal full text search package"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.recoll.org"
-SRC_URI="https://www.recoll.org/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2+"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86"
-
-IUSE="camelcase chm +inotify qt6 session +spell systemd webengine"
-REQUIRED_USE="
-	webengine? ( qt6 )
-	${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}
-"
-
-DEPEND="
-	dev-libs/libxml2:=
-	dev-libs/libxslt
-	dev-libs/xapian:=
-	virtual/zlib:=
-	virtual/libiconv
-	chm? (
-		dev-libs/chmlib
-		dev-python/pychm
-	)
-	qt6? (
-		dev-qt/qtbase:6[gui,network,widgets]
-		webengine? ( dev-qt/qtwebengine:6[widgets] )
-	)
-	session? (
-		x11-libs/libSM
-		x11-libs/libICE
-		x11-libs/libX11
-	)
-	spell? ( app-text/aspell )
-	systemd? ( sys-apps/systemd )
-	${PYTHON_DEPS}
-"
-
-BDEPEND="
-	qt6? ( dev-qt/qttools:6[linguist] )
-"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	${DEPEND}
-	app-arch/unzip
-"
-
-# Build happens in two stages, leading to LDFLAGS being ignored by qmake
-QA_FLAGS_IGNORED="usr/bin/recoll"
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	if use inotify; then
-		local CONFIG_CHECK="~INOTIFY_USER"
-		check_extra_config
-	fi
-	python-single-r1_pkg_setup
-}
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-	python_fix_shebang filters
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	use qt6 && export QMAKE="$(qt6_get_bindir)/qmake"
-
-	local emesonargs=(
-		$(meson_use camelcase)
-		$(meson_use chm python-chm)
-		$(meson_use inotify)
-		$(meson_use qt6 qtgui)
-		$(meson_use session x11mon)
-		$(meson_use spell aspell)
-		$(meson_use spell python-aspell)
-		$(meson_use systemd)
-		$(meson_use webengine)
-		-Dappimage=false
-		-Dfam=false
-		-Drecollq=true
-		-Dwebkit=false
-		-Dsystemd-system-unit-dir="$(systemd_get_systemunitdir)"
-		-Dsystemd-user-unit-dir="$(systemd_get_userunitdir)"
-	)
-
-	use qt6 && emesonargs+=( $(usex webengine "-Dwebpreview=true" "-Dwebpreview=false") )
-
-	meson_src_configure
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	meson_install
-	rm -rf "${D}/$(python_get_sitedir)"/*.egg-info || die
-	python_optimize
-
-	# html docs should be placed in /usr/share/doc/${PN}/html
-	rm -r "${ED}/usr/share/${PN}/doc" || die
-	find "${ED}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	xdg_icon_cache_update
-	optfeature "XML based documents support" "dev-libs/libxslt[python] dev-libs/libxml2[python]"
-	optfeature "PDF files support" "app-text/poppler[utils]"
-	optfeature "PDF files with OCR support" app-text/tesseract
-	optfeature "MS Word files support" app-text/antiword
-	optfeature "Wordperfect files support" "app-text/libwpd[tools]"
-	optfeature "Lyx files support" app-office/lyx
-	optfeature "GNU Info files support" sys-apps/texinfo
-	optfeature "RAR archives support" dev-python/rarfile
-	optfeature "7zip archives support" dev-python/pylzma
-	optfeature "iCalendar files support" dev-python/icalendar
-	optfeature "Postscript files support" app-text/pstotext
-	optfeature "RTF files support" app-text/unrtf
-	optfeature "TeX files support" virtual/tex-base
-	optfeature "DVI files support" virtual/tex-base
-	optfeature "DJVU files support" app-text/djvu
-	optfeature "tags in audio files support" media-libs/mutagen
-	optfeature "tags in image files support" media-libs/exiftool
-	optfeature "Midi karaoke files support" dev-python/chardet
-}