diff --git a/sys-power/auto-cpufreq/Manifest b/sys-power/auto-cpufreq/Manifest
index d01430a9cd..93513f7c46 100644
--- a/sys-power/auto-cpufreq/Manifest
+++ b/sys-power/auto-cpufreq/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST auto-cpufreq-1.9.6.tar.gz 28393 BLAKE2B a4204cdfe549743c6781c4cf26c97133e488735d806d97205af2d956500b7b867c1635f6f20ee9940d9b98377b20fc83a31953099319e4e245a381754e35e8ee SHA512 55892a4ed27fbc8ffad8b67c9cfa9f70e510342bb2c4fbf8b84c8e4da0a4ca51940f34e02a052f97efdc41085cf4ff8db5323328a1b7ce948d9a87338a209798
 DIST auto-cpufreq-2.1.0.tar.gz 211221 BLAKE2B ee376e44b31cd93ae37c3a800fd1b7e89af3b696e1d128d2bc8d335b1240d2e2b0d5aa0e90cd1465185bfff9cee02069ee1d46120be014b1dc61ce056308d4a1 SHA512 e01e6f03e7fcd3e0640ebd829234a07043c8d88bd1feabbcc6df463007b2e93410935394257bc28ed1297b294292425adfe4079a3dff0ec5636c23c3cbdd9ee0
diff --git a/sys-power/auto-cpufreq/auto-cpufreq-1.9.6.ebuild b/sys-power/auto-cpufreq/auto-cpufreq-1.9.6.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 0d5cde33e7..0000000000
--- a/sys-power/auto-cpufreq/auto-cpufreq-1.9.6.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,82 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..11} )
-
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-
-inherit distutils-r1 systemd
-
-DESCRIPTION="Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-IUSE="systemd"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	dev-python/psutil
-	dev-python/click
-	dev-python/distro
-"
-
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-
-DOCS=( README.md )
-PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-remove-setuptools_git_versioning.patch" )
-
-src_prepare() {
-	sed -i 's|usr/local|usr|g' "scripts/${PN}.service" "scripts/${PN}-openrc" auto_cpufreq/core.py || die
-	distutils-r1_src_prepare
-}
-
-python_install() {
-	distutils-r1_python_install
-
-	exeinto "/usr/share/${PN}/scripts"
-	doexe scripts/cpufreqctl.sh
-
-	if use systemd; then
-		systemd_douserunit "scripts/${PN}.service"
-	else
-		doinitd "scripts/${PN}-openrc"
-		mv "${D}/etc/init.d/${PN}-openrc" "${D}/etc/init.d/${PN}" || die
-	fi
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
-	touch /var/log/auto-cpufreq.log
-
-	elog ""
-	elog "Enable auto-cpufreq daemon service at boot:"
-	if use systemd; then
-		elog "systemctl enable --now auto-cpufreq"
-	else
-		elog "rc-update add auto-cpufreq default"
-	fi
-	elog ""
-	elog "To view live log, run:"
-	elog "auto-cpufreq --stats"
-}
-
-pkg_postrm() {
-	# Remove auto-cpufreq log file
-	if [ -f "/var/log/auto-cpufreq.log" ]; then
-		rm /var/log/auto-cpufreq.log || die
-	fi
-
-	# Remove auto-cpufreq's cpufreqctl binary
-	# it overwrites cpufreqctl.sh
-	if [ -f "/usr/bin/cpufreqctl" ]; then
-		rm /usr/bin/cpufreqctl || die
-	fi
-
-	# Restore original cpufreqctl binary if backup was made
-	if [ -f "/usr/bin/cpufreqctl.auto-cpufreq.bak" ]; then
-		mv /usr/bin/cpufreqctl.auto-cpufreq.bak /usr/bin/cpufreqctl || die
-	fi
-}