diff --git a/dev-tex/pstplus/Manifest b/dev-tex/pstplus/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index ad117dd398e30..0000000000000
--- a/dev-tex/pstplus/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST pstplus-1.6.tar.bz2 434500 BLAKE2B d9dfa91e4fbe9b546257860bc44e171c30397683da7fc5e0e5d0d2ee2dec5e545908555e2d1b5951ef0321fbe17009ca222526b0b341e8296778f4454a1b2cb9 SHA512 5abb97f240db3244350e77c404ef4ebcb65f6baa00d6975e161d7fb03132631c9b09ac9dbf56cd3e6f418bfedb69746fee91f980b6ad55a6f6ab16c5ec0e5e69
diff --git a/dev-tex/pstplus/metadata.xml b/dev-tex/pstplus/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 13170c3184d89..0000000000000
--- a/dev-tex/pstplus/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-
-
-
-
- tex@gentoo.org
- Gentoo TeX Project
-
-
diff --git a/dev-tex/pstplus/pstplus-1.6.ebuild b/dev-tex/pstplus/pstplus-1.6.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 50f3fcbd4a148..0000000000000
--- a/dev-tex/pstplus/pstplus-1.6.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=4
-
-inherit eutils qt4-r2
-
-DESCRIPTION="A PSTricks GUI"
-HOMEPAGE="http://www.xm1math.net/pstplus/"
-SRC_URI="http://www.xm1math.net/pstplus/${P}.tar.bz2"
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE=""
-
-DEPEND="dev-qt/qtgui:4
- dev-qt/qtcore:4
-
-
-
-
- tex@gentoo.org
- Gentoo TeX Project
-
-
diff --git a/dev-tex/texamator/texamator-1.7.5-r2.ebuild b/dev-tex/texamator/texamator-1.7.5-r2.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 4a1aac84d4af6..0000000000000
--- a/dev-tex/texamator/texamator-1.7.5-r2.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
-
-inherit python-single-r1
-
-MY_PN=TeXamator
-
-DESCRIPTION="A program aimed at helping you making your exercise sheets"
-HOMEPAGE="http://alexisfles.ch/en/texamator/texamator.html
- https://github.com/alexisflesch/texamator"
-SRC_URI="http://snouffy.free.fr/blog-en/public/${MY_PN}/${MY_PN}.v.${PV}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE=""
-REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
-
-DEPEND="app-text/dvipng
- dev-python/PyQt4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
- virtual/latex-base
- ${PYTHON_DEPS}"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_PN}
-
-src_compile() {
- cat >> ${PN} <<-_EOF_ || die
- #!/bin/sh
- cd /usr/lib/${MY_PN} &&
- exec "${EPYTHON}" ${MY_PN}.py
- _EOF_
-}
-
-src_install() {
- dobin ${PN}
-
- python_moduleinto /usr/lib/${MY_PN}
- python_domodule ${MY_PN}.py partielatormods {ts,ui}_files
-}
diff --git a/kde-misc/akonadi-ews/Manifest b/kde-misc/akonadi-ews/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index f6b6dc1f79f35..0000000000000
--- a/kde-misc/akonadi-ews/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST akonadi-ews-0.8.1.tar.gz 143994 BLAKE2B 1801e43b31782b7bc37b49fd4d3c96714ff88df66fd66b6a68d39180b71395e16f2d637fb1275392e7831909ff302764879c17bb0d6012dc1e68b09ac80ab0dd SHA512 dd9ce54cfde2fbba2d64fd3112581d63985cc05156abb859368d6337e711755d362f5935295c1ce7bbd7d6a2a4c471bce02449a8583d1c09cc384bee279ffd89
diff --git a/kde-misc/akonadi-ews/akonadi-ews-0.8.1.ebuild b/kde-misc/akonadi-ews/akonadi-ews-0.8.1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 752aaaa3ea53f..0000000000000
--- a/kde-misc/akonadi-ews/akonadi-ews-0.8.1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-inherit kde5
-
-DESCRIPTION="Akonadi resource for Microsoft Exchange Web Services"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/KrissN/akonadi-ews"
-
-if [[ ${KDE_BUILD_TYPE} = live ]] ; then
- EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/KrissN/${PN}.git"
-else
- SRC_URI="https://github.com/KrissN/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-fi
-
-LICENSE="LGPL-2+"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE=""
-
-RDEPEND="
- $(add_frameworks_dep kcodecs)
- $(add_frameworks_dep kdelibs4support)
- $(add_frameworks_dep kio)
- $(add_frameworks_dep kwallet)
- $(add_frameworks_dep kwidgetsaddons)
- $(add_kdeapps_dep akonadi)
- $(add_kdeapps_dep akonadi-mime)
- $(add_kdeapps_dep kcalcore)
- $(add_kdeapps_dep kcontacts)
- $(add_kdeapps_dep kmime)
-"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
- dev-libs/libxslt"
-
-DOCS=( README.md )
diff --git a/kde-misc/akonadi-ews/metadata.xml b/kde-misc/akonadi-ews/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index c3779b746ec10..0000000000000
--- a/kde-misc/akonadi-ews/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-
-
-
-
- kde@gentoo.org
- Gentoo KDE Project
-
-
- KrissN/akonadi-ews
-
-
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 3dbf3b5e9efd3..91fe04cef23e9 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -245,21 +245,6 @@ sci-physics/geant-python
# mpv >= 0.28.0 requires changes currently only available in ffmpeg-9999.
>=media-video/mpv-0.28.0
-# Andreas Sturmlechner (18 Jan 2018)
-# Broken by >=kde-apps/kcalcore-17.12.0, but also merged into
-# kdepim-runtime 17.12 as an official feature. Bug #642926
-kde-misc/akonadi-ews
-
-# Andreas Sturmlechner (18 Jan 2018)
-# Dead upstream, depends on dead Qt4/poppler-qt4.
-# Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #641852
-dev-tex/pstplus
-
-# Andreas Sturmlechner (18 Jan 2018)
-# Depends on dead PyQt4/Qt4, upstream needs help w/ PyQt5.
-# Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #634986
-dev-tex/texamator
-
# Michał Górny (10 Jan 2018)
# The Fuzzer library is now installed as part of core LLVM. That's
# sys-devel/llvm in LLVM 5, and sys-libs/compiler-rt-sanitizers