diff --git a/dev-php/agavi/Manifest b/dev-php/agavi/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index d7850dcb01a2e..0000000000000
--- a/dev-php/agavi/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST agavi-1.0.8.tgz 2074126 BLAKE2B b38ff9f15e877604376c6704f007044ed4907df9dcd303646e85d54e98ae65f8f2182841001414ee9326e92515cabb0839f150544e8121c1f87ebf79e6dd4a41 SHA512 9e75ef0be455e329db8b2389d7fd7a7acb25d04dda6c31dea15496dc4e24ab17cf0e44e199d0c2a9fb11987331d582cf0c700adee815cac7276c32643b9183ee
diff --git a/dev-php/agavi/agavi-1.0.8.ebuild b/dev-php/agavi/agavi-1.0.8.ebuild
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index 3b7ac5c7ebead..0000000000000
--- a/dev-php/agavi/agavi-1.0.8.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-DESCRIPTION="PHP MVC application framework"
-HOMEPAGE="http://www.agavi.org/"
-SRC_URI="http://www.agavi.org/download/${PV}.tgz -> ${P}.tgz"
-LICENSE="BSD LGPL-2.1+ icu unicode public-domain"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE="examples +executable iconv session soap xmlrpc"
-
-RDEPEND="dev-lang/php[iconv?,session?,soap?,xml,xmlrpc(-)?]
-	executable? ( dev-php/phing )"
-
-DOCS=(
-	API_CHANGELOG
-	CHANGELOG
-	CHANGELOG-0.9
-	CHANGELOG-0.10
-	CHANGELOG-0.11
-	CONTRIBUTING.md
-	README.md
-	RELEASE_NOTES
-	RELEASE_NOTES-0.9
-	RELEASE_NOTES-0.10
-	RELEASE_NOTES-0.11
-	UPGRADING
-)
-
-src_install() {
-	einstalldocs
-	use executable && newbin "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-executable" "${PN}"
-	use examples && dodoc -r samples
-
-	insinto "/usr/share/php/${PN}"
-	doins -r src/*
-}
diff --git a/dev-php/agavi/files/agavi-executable b/dev-php/agavi/files/agavi-executable
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index 06405d6ca2e7a..0000000000000
--- a/dev-php/agavi/files/agavi-executable
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# A (heavily) modified version of the agavi-dist script shipped with
-# the Agavi package.
-#
-
-# Set this to the path to the Agavi installation's source directory. This is
-# the directory that contains the `agavi.php' file.
-AGAVI_SOURCE_DIRECTORY="/usr/share/php/agavi"
-
-php -d memory_limit=2G \
-    -f "${AGAVI_SOURCE_DIRECTORY}/build/agavi/script/agavi.php" \
-    -- \
-    --agavi-source-directory "${AGAVI_SOURCE_DIRECTORY}" "$@"
diff --git a/dev-php/agavi/metadata.xml b/dev-php/agavi/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 33a2e0ebdc076..0000000000000
--- a/dev-php/agavi/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="project">
-    <email>php-bugs@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>PHP</name>
-  </maintainer>
-  <use>
-    <flag name="executable">
-      Install the "agavi" executable used to manage projects. This
-      requires <pkg>dev-php/phing</pkg>, and may be omitted if you are
-      (for example) deploying an existing site to a production server.
-    </flag>
-  </use>
-  <upstream>
-    <remote-id type="github">agavi/agavi</remote-id>
-  </upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 8e8e0cdb60d7b..c95b469fe058b 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -578,13 +578,6 @@ sys-apps/intel-performance-counter-monitor
 media-sound/retrovol
 media-sound/umix
 
-# Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> (2022-11-19)
-# Agavi and its dependencies that are unmaintained and have no other
-# reverse dependencies.  It has received no activity since 2016,
-# and at least PEAR-VersionControl_SVN has reported test failures.
-# Removal on 2022-12-19.  Bug #737854.
-dev-php/agavi
-
 # Jonas Stein <jstein@gentoo.org> (2022-11-13)
 # Dead upstream
 # Removal after 2023-01-01.  Bug #881249.