diff --git a/app-eselect/eselect-awk/Manifest b/app-eselect/eselect-awk/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 236dfa20a9a63..0000000000000
--- a/app-eselect/eselect-awk/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST eselect-awk-0.4.tar.bz2 1687 BLAKE2B a733bbd48ad6d4e5aa1a159eac0b5b55d0b7a844588212eeff522a3ac3c3e689e52456108a9734192de2364b9927652314cd6d0142af6726018db8197ba09784 SHA512 3e4130cc5a126e2978cc9c990e238700e109d2ea5ab0b734dbd45a10ebdbcfdf0a718ee672e76c3b674f4986921cebdaa6b37c22d34815170011766ee7dba99d
diff --git a/app-eselect/eselect-awk/eselect-awk-0.4.ebuild b/app-eselect/eselect-awk/eselect-awk-0.4.ebuild
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index c8845e15cce36..0000000000000
--- a/app-eselect/eselect-awk/eselect-awk-0.4.ebuild
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@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DESCRIPTION="Manages the {,/usr}/bin/awk symlink"
-HOMEPAGE="https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/eselect-awk.git/"
-SRC_URI="https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/eselect-awk.git/snapshot/${P}.tar.bz2"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux"
-
-src_install() {
-	insinto /usr/share/eselect/modules
-	doins awk.eselect
-}
diff --git a/app-eselect/eselect-awk/metadata.xml b/app-eselect/eselect-awk/metadata.xml
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index bbd1ffb10a80f..0000000000000
--- a/app-eselect/eselect-awk/metadata.xml
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@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="project">
-		<email>base-system@gentoo.org</email>
-		<name>Gentoo Base System</name>
-	</maintainer>
-	<stabilize-allarches/>
-	<upstream>
-		<remote-id type="gentoo">proj/eselect-awk</remote-id>
-	</upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 81e3307909ca3..e68303a4d5285 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -692,11 +692,6 @@ net-p2p/vuze-coreplugins
 # Removal on 2023-01-26. Bug #888665
 sys-auth/pam_fprint
 
-# Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> (2022-12-27)
-# Obsolete and incompatible with app-alternatives/* (see news item).
-# Removal on 2023-01-27. bug #886019 and bug #886021 respectively.
-app-eselect/eselect-awk
-
 # Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> (2022-12-27)
 # Regression in listing subvolumes (no UUIDs), bug #888549
 # https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/issues/562