diff --git a/profiles/base/package.use.mask b/profiles/base/package.use.mask
index 1d3e188e2e881..21c07a9ee5946 100644
--- a/profiles/base/package.use.mask
+++ b/profiles/base/package.use.mask
@@ -32,10 +32,6 @@ mail-mta/exim pam
 <=dev-games/openscenegraph-3.6.5-r117 las
 <=dev-games/openscenegraph-openmw-3.6_p20251012 las
 
-# Volkmar W. Pogatzki <gentoo@pogatzki.net> (2025-10-03)
-# No suitable versions of dev-libs/protobuf available.
-~dev-java/protobuf-java-4.32.1 system-protoc
-
 # Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> (2025-09-27)
 # Building NumPy with ILP64 LAPACK can cause revdeps to segfault if they
 # link to LP64 LAPACK.  To support this properly, we either need to