diff --git a/gnome-base/gnome-desktop/Manifest b/gnome-base/gnome-desktop/Manifest
index 760bcaa97e81b..aeed409058720 100644
--- a/gnome-base/gnome-desktop/Manifest
+++ b/gnome-base/gnome-desktop/Manifest
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 DIST gnome-desktop-44.1.tar.xz 766784 BLAKE2B 319c0cb48617755b7a8ff03245cc58b96ba74aa5c880311e8f719d0e5f3febfb19744f37f7d6744b212048cb03ed36ae9d67e3b0e79f02a7afe10521d4635584 SHA512 a939793a6870693f132cabb6dd5f06d0f2744cf97a9dc4b7a2b04c9a5aa09aa56f2f6d7630199a42d0d4e539ae724b54b91d4f9fe9ea2f785d854c58b2d8dd5f
-DIST gnome-desktop-44.3.tar.xz 763284 BLAKE2B e363e329c37073117c36659404d904df4c0877bfc37d0dfb8cb0e3308aba084520361a74bd4138ad3223b7e4b90e2dd15614e511d105ad51d79d1100bb727a31 SHA512 6dc5b43615ea47c0a091aa0cd9e258096811f175874ef72cf585b85d4ea9c95febe50acd48b06643c8ec9d2ef5dc9262476e0ca67f0000b0eef9902dd3e1a906
 DIST gnome-desktop-44.4.tar.xz 763656 BLAKE2B bb14f37e5b5540e99f6d10a7a78feb127bc0988322890234e6fb548d0532bd237af2be565fc56a0772e9e6e3322512b1401b0a0d5decc3c5f65ba848600e0e56 SHA512 c93a800121a3b8cbc307a32ca689f55b0f2637d3079892f0a6b01e713025c3b960ccfef5403935d9903ba8f5dce5be4fab3d89029cc103c190a991326fd74797
 DIST gnome-desktop-44.5.tar.xz 765220 BLAKE2B 6b222c60ccb2ce16df5f74ee1f822766a91047187bd62930614ed772c42b2349db48beaf7ebed58714a3f2db1127d32714e380cebe3adb8f16ed422bf231175d SHA512 538f9c70726cca592b36c8e1c31d74b26e2be9394ef4e823f3c45e23ec7e84e8b5f45c627901df351f6ae62fd1b2a8960c99cf70924aeb455fbbda268b9ad657
diff --git a/gnome-base/gnome-desktop/gnome-desktop-44.3-r300.ebuild b/gnome-base/gnome-desktop/gnome-desktop-44.3-r300.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 514b046368309..0000000000000
--- a/gnome-base/gnome-desktop/gnome-desktop-44.3-r300.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-inherit gnome.org meson xdg
-
-DESCRIPTION="Library with common API for various GNOME modules"
-HOMEPAGE="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-desktop/"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2+ LGPL-2+ FDL-1.1+"
-SLOT="3/20" # subslot = libgnome-desktop-3 soname version
-KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~loong ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc ~x86"
-IUSE="debug +introspection seccomp systemd udev"
-
-COMMON_DEPEND="
-	>=x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf-2.36.5:2[introspection?]
-	>=x11-libs/gtk+-3.3.6:3[introspection?]
-	>=dev-libs/glib-2.53.0:2
-	>=gnome-base/gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.27.0[introspection?]
-	x11-misc/xkeyboard-config
-	x11-libs/libxkbcommon
-	app-text/iso-codes
-	systemd? ( sys-apps/systemd:= )
-	udev? ( virtual/libudev:= )
-	seccomp? ( sys-libs/libseccomp )
-
-	x11-libs/cairo
-	introspection? ( >=dev-libs/gobject-introspection-1.82.0-r2:= )
-"
-DEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
-	media-libs/fontconfig
-"
-RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
-	seccomp? ( sys-apps/bubblewrap )
-	!<gnome-base/gnome-desktop-${PV}:4
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	app-text/docbook-xml-dtd:4.1.2
-	>=dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.80.5-r1
-	dev-util/itstool
-	>=sys-devel/gettext-0.19.8
-	virtual/pkgconfig
-"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-	xdg_environment_reset
-
-	# Don't build manual test programs that will never get run
-	sed -i -e "/'test-.*'/d" libgnome-desktop/meson.build || die
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	local emesonargs=(
-		-Ddesktop_docs=false
-		$(meson_use debug debug_tools)
-		$(meson_use introspection)
-		$(meson_feature udev)
-		$(meson_feature systemd)
-		-Dgtk_doc=false
-		-Dinstalled_tests=false
-		-Dbuild_gtk4=false
-		-Dlegacy_library=true
-	)
-	meson_src_configure
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	meson_src_install
-
-	rm -r \
-		"${ED}"/usr/share/locale \
-		|| die
-}
diff --git a/gnome-base/gnome-desktop/gnome-desktop-44.3-r400.ebuild b/gnome-base/gnome-desktop/gnome-desktop-44.3-r400.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 10ae7b9c9d47c..0000000000000
--- a/gnome-base/gnome-desktop/gnome-desktop-44.3-r400.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-inherit gnome.org meson xdg
-
-DESCRIPTION="Library with common API for various GNOME modules"
-HOMEPAGE="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-desktop/"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2+ LGPL-2+ FDL-1.1+"
-SLOT="4/2" # subslot = libgnome-desktop-4 soname version
-KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~loong ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc ~x86"
-IUSE="debug gtk-doc seccomp systemd udev"
-
-COMMON_DEPEND="
-	>=x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf-2.36.5:2[introspection]
-	>=gui-libs/gtk-4.4.0:4[introspection]
-	>=dev-libs/glib-2.53.0:2
-	>=gnome-base/gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.27.0[introspection]
-	x11-misc/xkeyboard-config
-	x11-libs/libxkbcommon
-	app-text/iso-codes
-	systemd? ( sys-apps/systemd:= )
-	udev? ( virtual/libudev:= )
-	seccomp? ( sys-libs/libseccomp )
-
-	x11-libs/cairo
-	>=dev-libs/gobject-introspection-1.82.0-r2:=
-"
-DEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
-	media-libs/fontconfig
-"
-RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
-	seccomp? ( sys-apps/bubblewrap )
-	!<gnome-base/gnome-desktop-${PV}:3
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	app-text/docbook-xml-dtd:4.1.2
-	>=dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.80.5-r1
-	gtk-doc? ( >=dev-util/gtk-doc-1.14 )
-	dev-util/itstool
-	>=sys-devel/gettext-0.19.8
-	virtual/pkgconfig
-"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-	xdg_environment_reset
-
-	# Don't build manual test programs that will never get run
-	sed -i -e "/'test-.*'/d" libgnome-desktop/meson.build || die
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	local emesonargs=(
-		-Ddesktop_docs=true
-		$(meson_use debug debug_tools)
-		$(meson_feature udev)
-		$(meson_feature systemd)
-		$(meson_use gtk-doc gtk_doc)
-		-Dinstalled_tests=false
-		-Dbuild_gtk4=true
-		-Dlegacy_library=false
-		-Dintrospection=true
-	)
-	meson_src_configure
-}