diff --git a/app-misc/aw-core/Manifest b/app-misc/aw-core/Manifest
index 6db4af276f..88ac3d490b 100644
--- a/app-misc/aw-core/Manifest
+++ b/app-misc/aw-core/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST aw-core-0.5.16.tar.gz 70074 BLAKE2B 66cb3f8fcacd5273b393cda80a2df3c11d1ad083d28ac4e7334d36ee4c739564f6324830f6e572578a76ab4e08463e5a2ce65dd9e1b6db61f4b1b1ed5d93c6ac SHA512 58aa9242d5e1e9ff6bc64d1a74069c1c5713a49f975dccc8230752d8f182ff1f8ce492bd6bcadc87fcb0e84e3d7d92fbeeda4713d08b2bb58ec214521da67fbd
 DIST aw-core-0.5.17.tar.gz 68656 BLAKE2B cd818cde076efb4ba7712bfafd0071bb0e6a3e16cd9f3ef72dd365927e69812bb74b2e9f928cb1d16cfcb263cc8b9880be2c46a2df533f7c6dbb03bfe2abf0e7 SHA512 7ba213f563a0db785a514c28d6c50d05279c85ca990b284ba0584de355d406bbf8e10c7166d2d1cc21b42799f9ab0d9a878b9669a85c40589a93aa93b61f756c
diff --git a/app-misc/aw-core/aw-core-0.5.16.ebuild b/app-misc/aw-core/aw-core-0.5.16.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 986c4d7a2a..0000000000
--- a/app-misc/aw-core/aw-core-0.5.16.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=poetry
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_12 )
-
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="Core library for ActivityWatch"
-HOMEPAGE="https://activitywatch.net"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/ActivityWatch/${PN}/archive/refs/tags/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="MPL-2.0"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-IUSE="test"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	dev-python/appdirs[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/deprecation[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/iso8601[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/jsonschema[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/peewee[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/rfc3339-validator[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/strict-rfc3339[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/TakeTheTime[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/timeslot[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/tomlkit[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-"
-
-DEPEND="
-	${RDEPEND}
-"
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest