diff --git a/app-crypt/pynitrokey/Manifest b/app-crypt/pynitrokey/Manifest
index dfd1dc2c32..1a24763fdf 100644
--- a/app-crypt/pynitrokey/Manifest
+++ b/app-crypt/pynitrokey/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST pynitrokey-0.12.1.gh.tar.gz 223235 BLAKE2B ae58a9d6b82a748809ba85a99445f1f2d54e459ab4ce2953bf29d1647d1d4890902d646c24f62ea09a952d7b99c0ad2cd68f6974184e87f8ec6a67f6c3579311 SHA512 458a2b3a0210eb27c057d57ba117b0feaf515b6c042d44b980bda91afe2e0da91795c51b2b9117c30beb85c367cd26cabbdcc92c75ff9daa30da7b6fef243526
 DIST pynitrokey-0.12.3.gh.tar.gz 220806 BLAKE2B 3c595f6efdc2a6c07b7fa776460c4a0a78101e1c5b12869fb4345d757cbe793021374f515d35a749cfd64bb8d18a14728d58b10ba16f0b54570625896c3b91a3 SHA512 6929b7b4573beea7b1c6ff4569c80e682d5dad1d67e03380c138a41fe6a882fde19de65b72f765a4e580ad26b142ae94b710dd8004ce11804f760b8a5a7b3e04
diff --git a/app-crypt/pynitrokey/metadata.xml b/app-crypt/pynitrokey/metadata.xml
index 75f11afc92..6f41dfb637 100644
--- a/app-crypt/pynitrokey/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-crypt/pynitrokey/metadata.xml
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
 		<email>jernej.jakob@gmail.com</email>
 		<name>Jernej Jakob</name>
 	</maintainer>
-	<use>
-		<flag name="piv">Install dependencies for "piv" subcommand</flag>
-	</use>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">Nitrokey/pynitrokey</remote-id>
 	</upstream>
diff --git a/app-crypt/pynitrokey/pynitrokey-0.12.1.ebuild b/app-crypt/pynitrokey/pynitrokey-0.12.1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 0f0625b690..0000000000
--- a/app-crypt/pynitrokey/pynitrokey-0.12.1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_SINGLE_IMPL=1
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=poetry
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{12..14} )
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="A command line interface for the Nitrokey FIDO2, Start, 3 and NetHSM"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/Nitrokey/pynitrokey"
-
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/Nitrokey/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.gh.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="|| ( Apache-2.0 MIT )"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-IUSE="piv"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
-		>=dev-python/cffi-1.15[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		<dev-python/cffi-3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/click-8.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		<dev-python/click-9[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/cryptography-43[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		<dev-python/cryptography-49[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		=dev-python/fido2-2*[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/hidapi-0.14[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		=dev-python/intelhex-2*[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/nitrokey-0.4.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		<dev-python/nitrokey-0.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		=dev-python/nkdfu-0.2*[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		=dev-python/pyusb-1*[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		=dev-python/requests-2*[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		=dev-python/tqdm-4*[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		=dev-python/tlv8-0.10*[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		=dev-python/semver-3*[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-python/nethsm-2.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		<dev-python/nethsm-3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		piv? ( =dev-python/pyscard-2*[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
-	')
-"
-
-# tests require a connected nitrokey device and will destroy the data on it!
-# it would be bad if the user was not expecting this.
-RESTRICT="test"
-
-pkg_postinst(){
-	elog "To use the 'piv' subcommand, enable USE 'piv'"
-}