diff --git a/profiles/base/make.defaults b/profiles/base/make.defaults
index e2840c75ce278..981eda7446a78 100644
--- a/profiles/base/make.defaults
+++ b/profiles/base/make.defaults
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses te
 # Manuel Rüger <mrueg@gentoo.org> (2015-09-09)
 # Default Ruby build target(s)
 # Updated to include ruby26 on 2020-09-14
-RUBY_TARGETS="ruby25 ruby26"
+RUBY_TARGETS="ruby26"
 
 # Enable extended filesystem attribute support by default.
 # https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/ba0e3457e4b807e79816f0df03566af0