diff --git a/net-misc/valve/Manifest b/net-misc/valve/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 1520f602d3d5f..0000000000000
--- a/net-misc/valve/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST valve-1.0.tar.gz 272182 BLAKE2B bc2373569d2f55b5a4d69297b9fb58131bb15fc0d3be538572412267ca642db53e7a337ac44991f4659cb5459ea9f64ca55afee5aaf3e2d64efa871f522b9386 SHA512 116d3c6c400ad523c1c40cf592f56a43e0920ea0b0b2436d8f6185f4664adbc79c30e0cec63ccf922e5998357138a5b50a7e7bb2d9d0b77cbd054d8d1a5ffc12
diff --git a/net-misc/valve/metadata.xml b/net-misc/valve/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index aaab041e8885d..0000000000000
--- a/net-misc/valve/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-<maintainer type="person">
-  <email>robbat2@gentoo.org</email>
-</maintainer>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/net-misc/valve/valve-1.0-r1.ebuild b/net-misc/valve/valve-1.0-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 5510f27b19f54..0000000000000
--- a/net-misc/valve/valve-1.0-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-DESCRIPTION="Copy data while enforcing a specified maximum transfer rate"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/valve/"
-SRC_URI="https://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/valve/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="public-domain"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc ~x86"
-IUSE="test doc"
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-DOCS=( README INSTALL valve.pdf )
-
-src_test() {
-	emake check
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	dodir /usr/share/man/man1 /usr/bin
-	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install
-	use doc && local HTML_DOCS=( index.html logo.png )
-	einstalldocs
-}
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 4cfe985145cb0..3f4609e0ee522 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -733,15 +733,6 @@ app-portage/gander
 # No reverse dependencies. Removal in 30 days.
 dev-ruby/hiredis
 
-# Marco Scardovi <mscardovi@icloud.com> (2022-12-22)
-# Per robbat2 request, I'm gonna treeclean it as we
-# are actually the only one maintaining it.
-# No update upstream, EAPI 6 and with a bug #687786
-# As replacement, it is possible to use pv --rate-limit
-# instead.
-# Removal on 2023-01-21
-net-misc/valve
-
 # Ionen Wolkens <ionen@gentoo.org> (2022-12-24)
 # Upstream dropped wxGTK support in >=games-emulation/pcsx2-1.7.3773,
 # and it now always requires Qt6. Masked given Qt6 is also masked in