diff --git a/dev-perl/PathTools/Manifest b/dev-perl/PathTools/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 1d5a0e9e04b9c..0000000000000
--- a/dev-perl/PathTools/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST PathTools-3.75.tar.gz 119064 BLAKE2B 1c1c79bbc03901e8ba92cf3008886bb81885cf33eff261baadc3d077e7089f77450a230549aa98305afd87a77b8bf9597a0b14c7bf3d02898bfed8e1a91f8e4a SHA512 bab592a64df391a50b70717cd5fa042ca395e83790dbc447abd72ef81f0e7caf7b8ce1158102d77d470765c572e6773cd907e4884532350bd2f15da667b9a993
diff --git a/dev-perl/PathTools/PathTools-3.750.0.ebuild b/dev-perl/PathTools/PathTools-3.750.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 6f9d1ff58c726..0000000000000
--- a/dev-perl/PathTools/PathTools-3.750.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2023 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DIST_AUTHOR="XSAWYERX"
-DIST_VERSION="3.75"
-inherit perl-module
-
-DESCRIPTION="Tools for working with directory and file names"
-
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc ~x86"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	virtual/perl-Carp
-	virtual/perl-Scalar-List-Utils
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	${RDEPEND}
-	virtual/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
-"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	# calls open() on nonexistent dir, #590084
-	rm -f "t/cwd_enoent.t" || die
-	default
-}
diff --git a/dev-perl/PathTools/metadata.xml b/dev-perl/PathTools/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 91a9870849b2f..0000000000000
--- a/dev-perl/PathTools/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="project">
-    <email>perl@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Gentoo Perl Project</name>
-  </maintainer>
-  <upstream>
-    <remote-id type="cpan">PathTools</remote-id>
-    <remote-id type="cpan-module">Cwd</remote-id>
-    <remote-id type="cpan-module">File::Spec</remote-id>
-    <remote-id type="cpan-module">File::Spec::AmigaOS</remote-id>
-    <remote-id type="cpan-module">File::Spec::Cygwin</remote-id>
-    <remote-id type="cpan-module">File::Spec::Epoc</remote-id>
-    <remote-id type="cpan-module">File::Spec::Functions</remote-id>
-    <remote-id type="cpan-module">File::Spec::Mac</remote-id>
-    <remote-id type="cpan-module">File::Spec::OS2</remote-id>
-    <remote-id type="cpan-module">File::Spec::Unix</remote-id>
-    <remote-id type="cpan-module">File::Spec::VMS</remote-id>
-    <remote-id type="cpan-module">File::Spec::Win32</remote-id>
-  </upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index aeb4fdd0bc5e6..21495ed40628c 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -382,12 +382,6 @@ dev-libs/libtreadstone
 # Pretest versions, masked for testing.
 <app-editors/emacs-29.1.9999:29-vcs
 
-# Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> (2023-10-16)
-# Part of Perl core and better maintained there - the version on CPAN is out of
-# date and incompatible with Perl 5.38. No reverse dependencies.
-# Removal on 2023-11-15.
-dev-perl/PathTools
-
 # Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> (2023-10-06)
 # Breaks building scipy: https://github.com/cython/cython/issues/5748
 =dev-python/cython-3.0.3