diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index f63d55ddf66e6..a2316b3fee7de 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -343,7 +343,6 @@ dev-python/funcsigs
 # Fail to build with gcc-10.  No recent activity upstream.  Seems that
 # Exherbo is dead and buried.
 # Removal in 30 days.  Bug #708528.
-sys-apps/sydbox
 sys-libs/pinktrace
 
 # Jonas Stein <jstein@gentoo.org> (2020-11-12)
diff --git a/sys-apps/sydbox/Manifest b/sys-apps/sydbox/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index f49739f1b2400..0000000000000
--- a/sys-apps/sydbox/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST sydbox-1.0.7.tar.bz2 480350 BLAKE2B d0e079148c997d6d452017a374d7795a79a8519cdf2c2f5f6f30c9fe4bd3cc8a579881de7bd1611615f18a8fc0bbd88e519cfbabc8e0e05009705a41ab6822f5 SHA512 b14d0cc6929aa705380dc2710e772054e07ca52c2990a71cac42d1111c90baf22253e168e1fe20eaf94ccde4d1ea1a3c1c26e4b9dd292f20a1028dc78a4e80d5
diff --git a/sys-apps/sydbox/metadata.xml b/sys-apps/sydbox/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0319eec4c8be9..0000000000000
--- a/sys-apps/sydbox/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>mgorny@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Michał Górny</name>
-	</maintainer>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/sys-apps/sydbox/sydbox-1.0.7.ebuild b/sys-apps/sydbox/sydbox-1.0.7.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 20a823ec71813..0000000000000
--- a/sys-apps/sydbox/sydbox-1.0.7.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-DESCRIPTION="ptrace-based sandbox"
-HOMEPAGE="https://git.exherbo.org/sydbox-1.git"
-SRC_URI="http://distfiles.exherbo.org/distfiles/${P}.tar.bz2"
-
-LICENSE="BSD"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-IUSE="debug seccomp test"
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-RDEPEND="sys-libs/pinktrace:=
-	debug? ( sys-libs/libunwind:= )"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	test? ( !<sys-apps/sandbox-2.13 )"
-
-src_configure() {
-	local myconf=(
-		$(use_enable debug)
-		$(use_enable seccomp)
-	)
-
-	econf "${myconf[@]}"
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	# unload the Gentoo sandbox
-	local -x SANDBOX_ON=0
-	local -x LD_PRELOAD=
-
-	emake check
-}