diff --git a/dev-util/wayland-scanner/Manifest b/dev-util/wayland-scanner/Manifest
index 425885494ada6..df2e99594d25f 100644
--- a/dev-util/wayland-scanner/Manifest
+++ b/dev-util/wayland-scanner/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST wayland-1.23.1.tar.xz 238212 BLAKE2B 74784b537a6e28610466ff1549286cea9ff8b9ca914afa26a07f177bbe0be56b80de037d5eb5d07a38bf02a9041c32e62c896facd5417c1435571640ad8f87b2 SHA512 818eda003e3f7aa15690eedb1ff227a6056b2ce54bf23d45ffe573dc40a914623c5a1358218b59444dcdc483db0503324f0d27091d0ea954412a8b290de5f50a
 DIST wayland-1.24.0.tar.xz 241764 BLAKE2B 7ac6ac1f33cb2cae60e4058478655eeabd4f8f8e0fe07f6b9b386967ed4b31bdaac571dc2b812f3189534e3e53797822ca39f829207e45c24b494f039f82a836 SHA512 60216602cffd1473ae15381f9e9a6f3829e742cac83843ca65360ba78bcff8d9442f15eb6a6d5d29c8f74dd920762ca1605f51658d22a1d3c18e338505b9f974
diff --git a/dev-util/wayland-scanner/wayland-scanner-1.23.1.ebuild b/dev-util/wayland-scanner/wayland-scanner-1.23.1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 2def57d4436c8..0000000000000
--- a/dev-util/wayland-scanner/wayland-scanner-1.23.1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-if [[ ${PV} = *9999* ]]; then
-	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland.git"
-	inherit git-r3
-else
-	SRC_URI="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/releases/${PV}/downloads/wayland-${PV}.tar.xz"
-	KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc x86"
-	S="${WORKDIR}/wayland-${PV}"
-fi
-inherit meson
-
-DESCRIPTION="wayland-scanner tool"
-HOMEPAGE="https://wayland.freedesktop.org/ https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-
-BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
-RDEPEND="
-	!<dev-libs/wayland-${PV}
-	>=dev-libs/expat-2.1.0-r3
-"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-
-src_configure() {
-	local emesonargs=(
-		-Ddocumentation=false
-		-Ddtd_validation=false
-		-Dlibraries=false
-		-Dscanner=true
-		-Dtests=false
-	)
-	meson_src_configure
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	meson_src_install
-
-	mv "${ED}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/pkgconfig "${ED}"/usr/share/pkgconfig
-}