diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 23e76c0b2b9d8..bbfc7500fb6ea 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -327,7 +327,6 @@ perl-core/Digest
 perl-core/Digest-MD5
 perl-core/Digest-SHA
 perl-core/Dumpvalue
-perl-core/Encode
 perl-core/ExtUtils-Constant
 
 # Hans de Graaff <graaff@gentoo.org> (2021-07-17)