diff --git a/dev-ruby/sfl/Manifest b/dev-ruby/sfl/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 68c42e5bc65f7..0000000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/sfl/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST sfl-2.2.gem 8192 BLAKE2B 631712748d0f58a9d76087a194cd889c4cc95696df2ac755a13357e7055f0277a146f6f3df58e678f95134ec9fa1d5ecf720c702b2bf2c7e4385d443381b3cdb SHA512 9b64a966ec4125ae39d273e9ea1529f422dd17bfe2c4696574ab7725c0aad42f974febe7359dafa073c2291b47c6e351e1d549e145d247ed7c2ea6ebc5c73932
diff --git a/dev-ruby/sfl/metadata.xml b/dev-ruby/sfl/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 111c946092665..0000000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/sfl/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="project">
-    <email>ruby@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Gentoo Ruby Project</name>
-  </maintainer>
-  <upstream>
-    <remote-id type="github">ujihisa/spawn-for-legacy</remote-id>
-  </upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-ruby/sfl/sfl-2.2-r2.ebuild b/dev-ruby/sfl/sfl-2.2-r2.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index bf0d43ccff3a9..0000000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/sfl/sfl-2.2-r2.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-USE_RUBY="ruby25 ruby26 ruby27"
-
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_RECIPE_DOC="none"
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="CHANGELOG.md README.md"
-
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_RECIPE_TEST="rspec"
-
-inherit ruby-fakegem
-
-DESCRIPTION="Library providing spawn() which is almost perfectly compatible with ruby 1.9's"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/ujihisa/spawn-for-legacy"
-
-LICENSE="|| ( Ruby BSD-2 )"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~x86"
-
-IUSE=""
-
-all_ruby_prepare() {
-	rm -f Gemfile* || die
-	sed -i -e "s:/tmp:${TMPDIR}:" spec/sfl_spec.rb || die
-}
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 650a631bfada8..3456a2bc25fae 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -361,13 +361,6 @@ www-servers/resin
 # No revdep. Retire in 30 days (2021-08-22)
 dev-ml/cstruct
 
-# Hans de Graaff <graaff@gentoo.org> (2021-07-18)
-# Compatibility package for ruby 1.8. No longer maintained upstream.
-# Last release in 2016, but current release in gentoo is from 2012.
-# No reverse dependencies.
-# Masked for removal in 30 days.
-dev-ruby/sfl
-
 # Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org> (2021-07-12)
 # Version 3.3.0 suffers from ridiculously high CPU usage, this version has
 # therefore been retracted upstream.