diff --git a/dev-ruby/ruby-sdl/Manifest b/dev-ruby/ruby-sdl/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 6f6345227ac6a..0000000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/ruby-sdl/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST ruby-sdl-2.1.2.tar.gz 178105 BLAKE2B 84870279edcf2616159861267ffc8666b482786f43a30c8729cd4c59f25219956648270452bf38b72115e05235786ec8c0f0e7913469cc8573d9eda813d25726 SHA512 1ddae367fb4145cc8142edbf3c61acaf56604054f710ac37cadb8d04f93db24fc3595c1bc8e0fb5f330aabc815884f31b5f2a39c0108026fca442fc0b3bc2807
diff --git a/dev-ruby/ruby-sdl/metadata.xml b/dev-ruby/ruby-sdl/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5334d73e1c743..0000000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/ruby-sdl/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-
-
-
-
- ruby@gentoo.org
- Gentoo Ruby Project
-
-
-
- ohai/rubysdl
-
-
diff --git a/dev-ruby/ruby-sdl/ruby-sdl-2.1.2-r3.ebuild b/dev-ruby/ruby-sdl/ruby-sdl-2.1.2-r3.ebuild
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index 43c4580b3a0ad..0000000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/ruby-sdl/ruby-sdl-2.1.2-r3.ebuild
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@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-USE_RUBY="ruby26 ruby27 ruby30 ruby31"
-
-inherit ruby-ng
-
-RELEASE="rel-${PV//./-}"
-RUBY_S="rubysdl-${RELEASE}"
-
-DESCRIPTION="Ruby/SDL: Ruby bindings for SDL"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.kmc.gr.jp/~ohai/rubysdl.en.html"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/ohai/rubysdl/archive/${RELEASE}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-LICENSE="LGPL-2.1"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ~ppc x86"
-
-IUSE="image mixer truetype mpeg sge"
-
-CDEPEND="
- >=media-libs/libsdl-1.2.5[joystick]
- truetype? ( >=media-libs/sdl-ttf-2.0.6 )
- image? ( >=media-libs/sdl-image-1.2.2 )
- mixer? ( >=media-libs/sdl-mixer-1.2.4 )
- mpeg? ( >=media-libs/smpeg-0.4.4-r1 )
- sge? ( media-libs/sge )"
-DEPEND="${DEPEND} ${CDEPEND}"
-RDEPEND="${RDEPEND} ${CDEPEND}"
-
-all_ruby_prepare() {
- # Remove already compressed image
- rm -f sample/icon.bmp.gz || die
-}
-
-each_ruby_configure() {
- ${RUBY} extconf.rb || die "extconf.rb failed"
-}
-
-each_ruby_compile() {
- emake V=1
-}
-
-each_ruby_install() {
- emake V=1 DESTDIR="${D}" install
-}
-
-all_ruby_install() {
- dodoc README.en README.ja NEWS.en NEWS.ja
- dodoc -r doc-en sample
-}
-
-pkg_postinst() {
- if ! use image || ! use mixer || ! use truetype || ! use mpeg || ! use sge; then
- echo ""
- ewarn "If any of the following packages are not installed, Ruby/SDL"
- ewarn "will be missing some functionality. This is ok, but may"
- ewarn "cause errors in Ruby/SDL programs that need these libraries:"
- ewarn ""
- ewarn "\tmedia-libs/sdl-image\tImage loading (PNG, JPEG, etc.)"
- ewarn "\tmedia-libs/sdl-mixer\tSound mixing"
- ewarn "\tmedia-libs/sdl-ttf\tTrueType Fonts"
- ewarn "\tmedia-libs/sge\t\tVarious cool graphics extensions"
- ewarn "\tmedia-libs/smpeg\tMPEG playback (including mp3)"
- ewarn ""
- ewarn "If you need the functionality offered by these libraries,"
- ewarn "emerge the desired libraries, then re-emerge dev-ruby/rubysdl"
- echo ""
- fi
-}
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 341d720bd5cbb..4abbc43e7f3b4 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -433,13 +433,6 @@ games-fps/qudos
# tests fail. Removal on 2022-11-22. Bug #741200, #875686.
sci-calculators/grpn
-# Hans de Graaff (2022-10-22)
-# Last release upstream 10 years ago. No longer compiles with latest
-# clang (bug #875254) and doubtful that this actually works with recent
-# ruby versions.
-# Masked for removal in 30 days.
-dev-ruby/ruby-sdl
-
# John Helmert III (2022-10-16)
#