diff --git a/utils/librarypath/librarypath.go b/utils/librarypath/librarypath.go
index e3e1c20..497e079 100644
--- a/utils/librarypath/librarypath.go
+++ b/utils/librarypath/librarypath.go
@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/hashload/boss/pkg/pkgmanager"
 
-	"slices"
-
 	"github.com/hashload/boss/internal/core/domain"
 	"github.com/hashload/boss/pkg/consts"
 	"github.com/hashload/boss/pkg/env"
@@ -204,12 +202,13 @@ func getDefaultPath(fullPath bool, rootPath string) []string {
 
 // cleanEmpty removes empty strings from a slice.
 func cleanEmpty(paths []string) []string {
-	for index, value := range paths {
-		if value == "" {
-			paths = slices.Delete(paths, index, index+1)
+	cleaned := paths[:0]
+	for _, value := range paths {
+		if value != "" {
+			cleaned = append(cleaned, value)
 		}
 	}
-	return paths
+	return cleaned
 }
 
 // getNewBrowsingPathsFromDir returns a list of new browsing paths from a directory.
diff --git a/utils/librarypath/librarypath_test.go b/utils/librarypath/librarypath_test.go
index 78a4f10..534e624 100644
--- a/utils/librarypath/librarypath_test.go
+++ b/utils/librarypath/librarypath_test.go
@@ -46,6 +46,51 @@ func TestCleanPath(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// TestCleanEmpty tests empty string removal from a slice.
+func TestCleanEmpty(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		name string
+		in   []string
+		want []string
+	}{
+		{
+			name: "no empties",
+			in:   []string{"a", "b"},
+			want: []string{"a", "b"},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "single empty",
+			in:   []string{"a", "", "b"},
+			want: []string{"a", "b"},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "multiple empties",
+			in:   []string{"", "a", "", "b", ""},
+			want: []string{"a", "b"},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "all empty",
+			in:   []string{"", ""},
+			want: []string{},
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			result := cleanEmpty(tt.in)
+
+			if len(result) != len(tt.want) {
+				t.Fatalf("cleanEmpty() = %v, want %v", result, tt.want)
+			}
+			for i, v := range result {
+				if v != tt.want[i] {
+					t.Errorf("cleanEmpty()[%d] = %q, want %q", i, v, tt.want[i])
+				}
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
 // TestGetNewBrowsingPaths tests browsing paths retrieval.
 func TestGetNewBrowsingPaths(t *testing.T) {
 	tempDir := t.TempDir()