diff --git a/profiles/desc/collectd_plugins.desc b/profiles/desc/collectd_plugins.desc
index de7b06543e3d1..963c7cd4d5c04 100644
--- a/profiles/desc/collectd_plugins.desc
+++ b/profiles/desc/collectd_plugins.desc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 # This file contains descriptions of COLLECTD_PLUGINS USE_EXPAND flags.
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ exec - Build the exec input/output plugin (executes scripts / applications and r
 fhcount - Build the file handles input plugin (reports the number of used file handles)
 filecount - Build the filecount input plugin (counts the number of files in a directory and all its subdirectories)
 fscache - Build the fscache input plugin (collects information about the file-system based caching infrastructure for network file-systems and other slow media)
-gmond - Build the gmond input plugin (receives data from gmond, the client daemon of the Ganglia project)
 gps - Build the gps input plugin (collects number of satellites seen by a GPS receiver using sci-geosciences/gpsd)
 gpu_nvidia - Build the NVIDIA GPU input plugin (collects stats from NVIDIA GPU)
 hddtemp - Build the hddtemp input plugin (collects the temperature of disks from hddtemp daemon)
diff --git a/profiles/desc/curl_ssl.desc b/profiles/desc/curl_ssl.desc
index 2e78c7ea73dab..9023283859e15 100644
--- a/profiles/desc/curl_ssl.desc
+++ b/profiles/desc/curl_ssl.desc
@@ -6,6 +6,5 @@
 
 gnutls - Use GnuTLS
 mbedtls - Use mbed TLS
-nss - Use Mozilla's Network Security Services 
 openssl - Use OpenSSL
 rustls - Use Rustls
diff --git a/profiles/desc/ros_messages.desc b/profiles/desc/ros_messages.desc
deleted file mode 100644
index ec400e7933d51..0000000000000
--- a/profiles/desc/ros_messages.desc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-# This file contains descriptions of ROS_MESSAGES USE-EXPANDED variables.
-# Keep it sorted.
-
-cxx - Generate and install C++ messages.
-eus - Generate and install EusLisp messages.
-lisp - Generate and install Common-Lisp messages.
-nodejs - Generate and install Nodejs messages.
-python - Generate and install Python messages. The PYTHON_TARGETS variable controls the Python versions to build for.
diff --git a/profiles/desc/ruby_targets.desc b/profiles/desc/ruby_targets.desc
index d1681bebfaf5d..61b5e13cbf97e 100644
--- a/profiles/desc/ruby_targets.desc
+++ b/profiles/desc/ruby_targets.desc
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 # This file contains descriptions of RUBY_TARGETS USE_EXPAND flags.
 
-ruby25 - Build with MRI Ruby 2.5.x
 ruby26 - Build with MRI Ruby 2.6.x
 ruby27 - Build with MRI Ruby 2.7.x
 ruby30 - Build with MRI Ruby 3.0.x
diff --git a/profiles/desc/video_cards.desc b/profiles/desc/video_cards.desc
index 6beea7b60b6d1..f749910a11bfb 100644
--- a/profiles/desc/video_cards.desc
+++ b/profiles/desc/video_cards.desc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors.
+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors.
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 # This file contains descriptions of VIDEO_CARDS USE_EXPAND flags.
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ exynos - VIDEO_CARDS setting to build driver for Samsung Exynos video cards
 freedreno - VIDEO_CARDS setting to build reverse-engineered driver for Qualcomm Adreno cards
 fbdev - VIDEO_CARDS setting to build driver for fbdev video cards
 geode - VIDEO_CARDS setting to build driver for AMD Geode GX and LX video cards
-glint - VIDEO_CARDS setting to build driver for glint video cards
 i915 - VIDEO_CARDS setting to build driver for Intel i915 video cards
 i965 - VIDEO_CARDS setting to build driver for Intel i965 video cards
 intel - VIDEO_CARDS setting to build driver for Intel video cards