diff --git a/dev-erlang/riakc/Manifest b/dev-erlang/riakc/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index e0fcde4f51c9e..0000000000000
--- a/dev-erlang/riakc/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST riakc-2.4.2.tar.gz 273312 BLAKE2B 0428990472f99d8824299b4a100d00c328f97ce6a93c0460e30e11e7669453790d8d6804d066a69390da8a28ea9a7aed59a72887376fccfa008010db3faee439 SHA512 ec1712dfc2a3ec0dca237bb9050fc901bed4eddfe200b92ff878c1e37db4511bcb3b78c036e803ea0c81dfa4279022ce668288a4cecde51ef0afd0583cffb0a6
diff --git a/dev-erlang/riakc/metadata.xml b/dev-erlang/riakc/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3e94915e02048..0000000000000
--- a/dev-erlang/riakc/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-needed -->
-	<upstream>
-		<remote-id type="github">basho/riak-erlang-client</remote-id>
-	</upstream>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-erlang/riakc/riakc-2.4.2.ebuild b/dev-erlang/riakc/riakc-2.4.2.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 511f7c788d79b..0000000000000
--- a/dev-erlang/riakc/riakc-2.4.2.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-inherit rebar
-
-MY_PN="riak-erlang-client"
-MY_P="${MY_PN}-${PV}"
-
-DESCRIPTION="Erlang clients for Riak"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/basho/riak-erlang-client"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/basho/${MY_PN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm ~ia64 ppc ~sparc x86"
-
-DEPEND=">=dev-erlang/riak_pb-2.1.4.2
-	>=dev-lang/erlang-17.1"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-DOCS=( README.md RELNOTES.md )
-
-S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	rebar_src_prepare
-	# 'priv' directory contains only edoc.css, but doc isn't going to be built.
-	rm -r "${S}/priv" || die
-}
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index a9429f21f43c3..80631af4b4d03 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -560,7 +560,6 @@ app-emulation/aqemu
 app-forensics/ovaldi
 app-misc/glimpse
 dev-db/cpp-driver
-dev-erlang/riakc
 
 # Jonas Stein <jstein@gentoo.org> (2022-11-13)
 # Dead upstream