diff --git a/kde-frameworks/syntax-highlighting/Manifest b/kde-frameworks/syntax-highlighting/Manifest
index bb010431285f0..bbe6c5bc1f6aa 100644
--- a/kde-frameworks/syntax-highlighting/Manifest
+++ b/kde-frameworks/syntax-highlighting/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-DIST syntax-highlighting-6.16.0.tar.xz 3679160 BLAKE2B 4ea12312b2098da042fc72b7c726d40860ae4a7ce0e1481ed021935aac38ba8050f0c7d6830acec9d584e9b509d20636312d68c9389872bf32d46fd0791e300f SHA512 91f8c6f7d6c97624bd9963ceed3932efa12af380b22d678e5b827384ebab960217f45573187467bb4c74a7de6fd1c8846d8db727b32c02c50cb486f0f58184d2
 DIST syntax-highlighting-6.18.0.tar.xz 3715588 BLAKE2B b8e680de8e53025b88a4903ce47ec83ae6101cec11354adf03084429777df1ecdebf3a11799b7795fd3207e65dbe52bfe8df89dbd4f47996aa313c57dab1a850 SHA512 65262576b3d6a020617658f3e7fd988e236001ac7461735ab085ea378e32dde3eef6fe5ed4c16a57e186ecfb0d8ba9916899e3cc1045ca271c73cf22cb0a41c8
 DIST syntax-highlighting-6.19.0.tar.xz 3752928 BLAKE2B c5606d040bcf706bb5f10c0b53f7447a247729424b338b72e17c5869cbcb7c5b51c2a0c0e5ed6656e95956a2d1955cfeff8a60246d7a67113a013366f56d9863 SHA512 dc3bc547cfedc0ba683cec68a034dd63dde250e208130905dce5ec3630efd192d6ca4c43cb7ebb1ecd82d781f01f1cc9f3efe63decabd841cf91100558b28d76
diff --git a/kde-frameworks/syntax-highlighting/syntax-highlighting-6.16.0.ebuild b/kde-frameworks/syntax-highlighting/syntax-highlighting-6.16.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 5dd915590b9a9..0000000000000
--- a/kde-frameworks/syntax-highlighting/syntax-highlighting-6.16.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-ECM_TEST="forceoptional"
-QTMIN=6.7.2
-inherit ecm frameworks.kde.org
-
-DESCRIPTION="Framework for syntax highlighting"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 arm64 ~loong ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
-IUSE=""
-
-# examples: dev-qt/qtbase[printsupport,widgets]
-RDEPEND="
-	>=dev-qt/qtbase-${QTMIN}:6[gui,network]
-	>=dev-qt/qtdeclarative-${QTMIN}:6
-"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	dev-libs/xerces-c
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	dev-lang/perl
-	>=dev-qt/qttools-${QTMIN}:6[linguist]
-"