diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 1a7000c1e3901..7a0215f9360c6 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@
 
 #--- END OF EXAMPLES ---
 
+# Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> (11 Dec 2015)
+# Ancient, smells funny, disowned by upstream, needs syck
+# Masked for removal in 30 days, bug 565012
+dev-perl/YAML-Parser-Syck
+
 # Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> (11 Dec 2015)
 # Release candidates for Exim 4.87
 =mail-mta/exim-4.87_rc1