diff --git a/dev-cpp/gconfmm/Manifest b/dev-cpp/gconfmm/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index a78d8f8f629db..0000000000000
--- a/dev-cpp/gconfmm/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST gconfmm-2.28.3.tar.bz2 471125 BLAKE2B 834d63ee91ee6849970ce612c387957607bb3e723afb06b0ee8dad0336ae81c3a4c40a81846d6abbb425b5f3f0cbad026189d563a814d8acd1010f3b1dbdfa93 SHA512 0fd3a43373dfdf514eca61537c19dafd4ad582d2ec6bb325652766fba90ed723feff6daf93effcdf20f917c573131d58c16f1a826194f653864a701bb8a57097
diff --git a/dev-cpp/gconfmm/files/gconfmm-2.28.3-no-extern-c-glib-includes.patch b/dev-cpp/gconfmm/files/gconfmm-2.28.3-no-extern-c-glib-includes.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index b05face5b0a04..0000000000000
--- a/dev-cpp/gconfmm/files/gconfmm-2.28.3-no-extern-c-glib-includes.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur gconfmm-2.28.3-original/gconf/gconfmm/callback.h gconfmm-2.28.3/gconf/gconfmm/callback.h
---- gconfmm-2.28.3-original/gconf/gconfmm/callback.h	2011-10-18 11:33:49.000000000 -0400
-+++ gconfmm-2.28.3/gconf/gconfmm/callback.h	2021-02-13 09:21:06.167235506 -0500
-@@ -22,10 +22,7 @@
- #ifndef GCONFMM_CALLBACK_H
- #define GCONFMM_CALLBACK_H
- 
--extern "C"
--{
- #include <gconf/gconf-client.h>
--}
- 
- #include <glibmm/object.h>
- #include <gconfmm/entry.h>
-diff -Naur gconfmm-2.28.3-original/gconf/gconfmm/schema.h gconfmm-2.28.3/gconf/gconfmm/schema.h
---- gconfmm-2.28.3-original/gconf/gconfmm/schema.h	2011-10-21 04:51:27.000000000 -0400
-+++ gconfmm-2.28.3/gconf/gconfmm/schema.h	2021-02-13 09:21:24.616354041 -0500
-@@ -31,10 +31,8 @@
- #include <gconfmm/value.h>
- 
- 
--extern "C" {
--    // TODO: do not include this.
-+// TODO: do not include this.
- #include <gconf/gconf-schema.h>
--}
- 
- namespace Gnome
- {
-diff -Naur gconfmm-2.28.3-original/gconf/src/schema.hg gconfmm-2.28.3/gconf/src/schema.hg
---- gconfmm-2.28.3-original/gconf/src/schema.hg	2011-10-18 11:33:49.000000000 -0400
-+++ gconfmm-2.28.3/gconf/src/schema.hg	2021-02-13 09:21:58.002568546 -0500
-@@ -24,10 +24,8 @@
- 
- _DEFS(gconfmm,gconf)
- 
--extern "C" {
--    // TODO: do not include this.
-+// TODO: do not include this.
- #include <gconf/gconf-schema.h>
--}
- 
- namespace Gnome
- {
diff --git a/dev-cpp/gconfmm/gconfmm-2.28.3-r1.ebuild b/dev-cpp/gconfmm/gconfmm-2.28.3-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 745c74a929471..0000000000000
--- a/dev-cpp/gconfmm/gconfmm-2.28.3-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-GNOME_TARBALL_SUFFIX="bz2"
-
-inherit flag-o-matic gnome2
-
-DESCRIPTION="C++ bindings for GConf"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.gtkmm.org"
-
-LICENSE="LGPL-2.1"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm ~ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86"
-
-DEPEND="
-	>=gnome-base/gconf-2.4:2
-	>=dev-cpp/glibmm-2.12:2
-	>=dev-cpp/gtkmm-2.4:2.4
-"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
-
-PATCHES=(
-	"${FILESDIR}"/${P}-no-extern-c-glib-includes.patch
-)
-
-src_configure() {
-	append-cxxflags -std=c++11 #568580
-	gnome2_src_configure \
-		--disable-documentation
-}
diff --git a/dev-cpp/gconfmm/metadata.xml b/dev-cpp/gconfmm/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 7b343b06be8a9..0000000000000
--- a/dev-cpp/gconfmm/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-<maintainer type="project">
-	<email>gnome@gentoo.org</email>
-	<name>Gentoo GNOME Desktop</name>
-</maintainer>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/profiles/package.deprecated b/profiles/package.deprecated
index 4cd6e9932e9e4..26d5ee443b6e9 100644
--- a/profiles/package.deprecated
+++ b/profiles/package.deprecated
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ app-text/gnome-doc-utils
 app-text/gtkspell:2
 app-text/rarian
 app-text/scrollkeeper-dtd
-dev-cpp/gconfmm
 dev-cpp/gtkmm:2.4
 dev-libs/libcroco
 dev-libs/libIDL
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index a91f323fbf6e2..57da1c671ced0 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -333,11 +333,6 @@ dev-util/cucumber-wire:5
 # (EGO_SUM). bug #700846, bug #844445. Removal on 2022-06-20.
 dev-util/kubebuilder
 
-# Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> (2022-05-19)
-# Dead package upstream for more than 7 years.
-# Removal on 2022-06-19.
-dev-cpp/gconfmm
-
 # Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> (2022-04-30)
 # Masked for testing. Apparently causes crashes. Bug #841857.
 >=x11-libs/libX11-1.8