diff --git a/dev-ruby/em-synchrony/Manifest b/dev-ruby/em-synchrony/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 8958bd20fa..0000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/em-synchrony/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST em-synchrony-1.0.6.gem 35840 SHA256 6e7470a684d9bbc00d61d552911b65711540bd89e95c157156f5aacdd6f306ca SHA512 b94871123c5dde7066cbe787df94cfe094bcb40de1646ab1d32d0ec552affe0d3dd4568fc6cff9fe315053f31a01ceddb243f2e9711a6c07e9349aaa5146bf0f WHIRLPOOL 393db04cf6e9e603004f999c1b6a7b1ba14503098986c2eec0528597f3434cb9fe8d43d5aaba39ddfefcf293afe0926c4b79be11ca50b71fbddba5c4a218391c
diff --git a/dev-ruby/em-synchrony/em-synchrony-1.0.6.ebuild b/dev-ruby/em-synchrony/em-synchrony-1.0.6.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 0cb945dfe4..0000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/em-synchrony/em-synchrony-1.0.6.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-USE_RUBY="ruby22 ruby23 ruby24"
-
-inherit ruby-fakegem
-
-DESCRIPTION="Fiber aware EventMachine libraries"
-HOMEPAGE="http://rubygems.org/gems/em-synchrony"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~x86 "
-IUSE=""
-
-ruby_add_rdepend ">=dev-ruby/eventmachine-1.0.0"
diff --git a/dev-ruby/http_configuration/Manifest b/dev-ruby/http_configuration/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e3fb3c7bb..0000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/http_configuration/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST http_configuration-1.0.4.gem 9216 BLAKE2B f22e57aaa32fa5f5fc833382b92e6e7838bb5ca690fc9ccdbe13e8254ac1f508ed72db5612751e8fe3e89a34bc69952adeceea189e17a6286c155b8fe33993cc SHA512 184f59ca9d6f2556f61cb6033181583bf94c71258ababcaee2be9073a329179a6b63c8acefe543a9e8496816420fa3d048df9e1f0088d9d62bfa59dd45f3ba3e
diff --git a/dev-ruby/http_configuration/http_configuration-1.0.4.ebuild b/dev-ruby/http_configuration/http_configuration-1.0.4.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index b1c0ea4cae..0000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/http_configuration/http_configuration-1.0.4.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-USE_RUBY="ruby24 ruby25"
-
-inherit ruby-fakegem
-
-
-DESCRIPTION="set configuration for Net::HTTP"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/bdurand/http_configuration"
-SRC_URI="mirror://rubygems/${P}.gem"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE=""
-
-#so old that the test syntax has changed
-RESTRICT=test
-
-DEPEND=""
-RDEPEND="!dev-ruby/httpconfig"
diff --git a/dev-ruby/rbnacl-libsodium/Manifest b/dev-ruby/rbnacl-libsodium/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index cd822c08d7..0000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/rbnacl-libsodium/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST rbnacl-libsodium-1.0.16.gem 2738176 BLAKE2B 4a29ad5a36237da38e193e95abb8e8d88a9b5df2a9263e8fa77ae00046d01706a1bdf0cdcf75886c9b9090dd9af83d100cc7e47fc12c03c1440a8ce9fcb13c4b SHA512 da200becdd3f6c6d6f86d783f8094f209aa13cc6520cbde0538d25d4fae0507a9cbec0aa7c63d893686da0eca64dd0633fe69c1d1285727396ce914ee7b8eb63
diff --git a/dev-ruby/rbnacl-libsodium/rbnacl-libsodium-1.0.16.ebuild b/dev-ruby/rbnacl-libsodium/rbnacl-libsodium-1.0.16.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 86953ae3e5..0000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/rbnacl-libsodium/rbnacl-libsodium-1.0.16.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-USE_RUBY="ruby23 ruby24"
-
-inherit ruby-fakegem
-
-DESCRIPTION="rbnacl with bundled libsodium"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/cryptosphere/rbnacl-libsodium"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE=""
-
-RDEPEND=">=dev-ruby/rbnacl-3.0.1"
diff --git a/dev-ruby/therubyracer/Manifest b/dev-ruby/therubyracer/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 3aa90286a4..0000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/therubyracer/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST therubyracer-0.12.3.gem 58880 BLAKE2B 4fbabb1a2480c4dc052af24c0dacd477ce382e82c0fbc9408aae887abfedf187677c23e89c624b0035ba332e7b11a29425fa90e905f6f441356f1403ebadc3a3 SHA512 f95083213413545cc43c631f5f57f83cc04dee884d3ae79a18c656705ad75501f6315de74f9b09f8a20d143903c06bebc873376d1a629214201fdc9a366771eb
diff --git a/dev-ruby/therubyracer/therubyracer-0.12.3-r1.ebuild b/dev-ruby/therubyracer/therubyracer-0.12.3-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 7be8a19504..0000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/therubyracer/therubyracer-0.12.3-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-USE_RUBY="ruby23 ruby24 ruby25"
-
-inherit ruby-fakegem
-
-DESCRIPTION="Call JavaScript code and manipulate JavaScript objects from Ruby"
-HOMEPAGE="http://github.com/cowboyd/therubyracer"
-SRC_URI="mirror://rubygems/${P}.gem"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-#unable to compile libv8 and verify the ebuild
-#KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE=""
-
-ruby_add_rdepend "=dev-ruby/libv8-3.16.14*
-	dev-ruby/ref"
-
-each_ruby_configure() {
-	${RUBY} -C ext/v8/ extconf.rb || die "extconf failed"
-}
-
-each_ruby_compile() {
-	emake V=1 -C ext/v8
-	cp ext/v8/v8$(get_modname) lib/v8 || die "cp failed"
-}
diff --git a/dev-ruby/watir-webdriver/Manifest b/dev-ruby/watir-webdriver/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 55466b6f33..0000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/watir-webdriver/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-DIST watir-webdriver-0.8.0.gem 86528 BLAKE2B c6175f3848b002ae8914eb00a3563593e7cfa596eeb41eb8659a5ebc74e7fd59fdbdb826a7dcc5db1b70b2af28ae1bf4b39bb4e7b74a93143b41f956a4c651d4 SHA512 d553009dd954f8c8408651e50b2302265e14a00d14ef07ee51daae9d8b6fc67afb435b373107959e3060024e9f5e7c152bbb58543553a9d086fa96074c249088
-DIST watir-webdriver-0.9.9.gem 88576 BLAKE2B b895f036eab1c1b8fa2d3307ee9a0bf1a55ab6e3ca3d72fead3d19ede371bd55b453216e277cb474563229d2648c736d6d4cf70e847ae7865e2d221c48830fb0 SHA512 4c9d1d12b790eeee39151189211f6ce45710a77c13b440895fe52aba3018e1a6b539c7abb1b59140c395ee31cdaac75c30357e10b3561a5a48b99375d4e91fc2
diff --git a/dev-ruby/watir-webdriver/watir-webdriver-0.8.0.ebuild b/dev-ruby/watir-webdriver/watir-webdriver-0.8.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index b22bb4c55d..0000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/watir-webdriver/watir-webdriver-0.8.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-USE_RUBY="ruby24 ruby25"
-
-inherit ruby-fakegem
-
-DESCRIPTION="WebDriver-backed Watir"
-HOMEPAGE="http://rubygems.org/gems/watir-webdriver"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~x86"
-IUSE=""
-
-ruby_add_rdepend "
-	>=dev-ruby/selenium-webdriver-2.46.2
-"
diff --git a/dev-ruby/watir-webdriver/watir-webdriver-0.9.9.ebuild b/dev-ruby/watir-webdriver/watir-webdriver-0.9.9.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index b22bb4c55d..0000000000
--- a/dev-ruby/watir-webdriver/watir-webdriver-0.9.9.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=6
-
-USE_RUBY="ruby24 ruby25"
-
-inherit ruby-fakegem
-
-DESCRIPTION="WebDriver-backed Watir"
-HOMEPAGE="http://rubygems.org/gems/watir-webdriver"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~x86"
-IUSE=""
-
-ruby_add_rdepend "
-	>=dev-ruby/selenium-webdriver-2.46.2
-"
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index c5b5a8309b..0fd3d90f5f 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-# Masked for removal in 30 days. Unused deps
-# Please report any issues to https://github.com/pentoo/pentoo-overlay/issues
-dev-ruby/em-synchrony
-dev-ruby/http_configuration
-dev-ruby/oj
-dev-ruby/rbnacl-libsodium
-dev-ruby/sys-proctable
-dev-ruby/therubyracer
-dev-ruby/watir-webdriver
-
 # It's a very unstable package
 net-analyzer/osmedeus
 
diff --git a/profiles/pentoo/arch/arm/package.accept_keywords/cracking b/profiles/pentoo/arch/arm/package.accept_keywords/cracking
index 9bbe8be514..975127dbe2 100644
--- a/profiles/pentoo/arch/arm/package.accept_keywords/cracking
+++ b/profiles/pentoo/arch/arm/package.accept_keywords/cracking
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ media-libs/exiftool amd64
 =app-crypt/ophcrack-tables-1.0-r1 **
 =net-misc/rdesktop-brute-1.5.0 **
 =app-text/cewl-4.1 **
-=dev-ruby/http_configuration-1.0.2-r1 **
 =dev-ruby/hpricot-0.8.6-r1 ~arm
 =net-analyzer/ncrack-0.4_alpha **
 =app-dicts/raft-wordlists-20110803 **
diff --git a/profiles/pentoo/base/package.accept_keywords/dev-ruby b/profiles/pentoo/base/package.accept_keywords/dev-ruby
index 01fd80b13b..0219d2e245 100644
--- a/profiles/pentoo/base/package.accept_keywords/dev-ruby
+++ b/profiles/pentoo/base/package.accept_keywords/dev-ruby
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ dev-ruby/mysql2:0.4
 #required by cewl
 ~dev-ruby/mini_exiftool-2.8.0
 ~dev-ruby/spider-0.5.1
-~dev-ruby/http_configuration-1.0.4
 
 #required by metasploit-9999
 ~dev-ruby/network_interface-0.0.2
@@ -32,7 +31,6 @@ dev-ruby/i18n:1
 dev-ruby/nexpose ~amd64
 ~dev-ruby/bcrypt_pbkdf-1.0.0 **
 dev-ruby/rbnacl:4
-dev-ruby/rbnacl-libsodium
 dev-ruby/faraday
 dev-ruby/rjb
 =dev-ruby/backports-3.13*
@@ -222,7 +220,6 @@ dev-ruby/uglifier:4
 ~dev-ruby/term-ansicolor-1.6.0
 ~dev-ruby/rack-protection-2.0.7
 ~dev-ruby/espeak-ruby-1.0.4
-=dev-ruby/therubyracer-0.12*
 =dev-ruby/ref-2.0*
 =dev-ruby/libv8-3.16*
 =dev-ruby/mustermann-1.0*
@@ -242,13 +239,10 @@ dev-ruby/uglifier:4
 ~dev-ruby/childprocess-0.5.9
 ~dev-ruby/websocket-1.2.2
 ~dev-ruby/pdf-core-0.6.0
-~dev-ruby/watir-webdriver-0.8.0
 ~dev-ruby/arachni-rpc-0.2.1.3
 ~dev-ruby/selenium-webdriver-2.53.4
 dev-ruby/ttfunk:1.5
-~dev-ruby/oj_mimic_json-1.0.1
 ~dev-ruby/rouge-1.10.1
-~dev-ruby/oj-2.14.6
 =dev-ruby/rb-readline-0.5*
 dev-ruby/mail:2.7
 
diff --git a/profiles/updates/1Q-2012 b/profiles/updates/1Q-2012
deleted file mode 100644
index 158a2c7074..0000000000
--- a/profiles/updates/1Q-2012
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-move dev-ruby/httpconfig dev-ruby/http_configuration