diff --git a/dev-python/acora/acora-9999.ebuild b/dev-python/acora/acora-9999.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 7cf0c904f..000000000
--- a/dev-python/acora/acora-9999.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Id$ 
-
-EAPI=5
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
-
-inherit distutils-r1 git-r3
-
-DESCRIPTION="Fast multi-keyword search engine for text strings"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/scoder/acora"
-SRC_URI=""
-EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/scoder/acora.git"
-EGIT_CHECKOUT_DIR="${WORKDIR}/acora"
-S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}"
-
-LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64"
-IUSE=""
-REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
-
-DEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
diff --git a/dev-python/backcall/Manifest b/dev-python/backcall/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index 5c4ad01d4..000000000
--- a/dev-python/backcall/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST backcall-0.1.0.tar.gz 9690 BLAKE2B 975944b508a4488cd78620b2f6efa8b0ebd7404966db5a53e409000c11641c979abb269289d3e570d01dc50961c881fe80ebbc2c6b79a01ce563d4e3f855af63 SHA512 359c483fbc8998fc2420daee2a6af7566c47fb03f64e465aa226589a2f98a4b219ab5e5b90e5f677087827a1ac658c02ec3062e9ffe9ac1ebfd9db3bb40339cd
diff --git a/dev-python/backcall/backcall-0.1.0.ebuild b/dev-python/backcall/backcall-0.1.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index a5b810eb4..000000000
--- a/dev-python/backcall/backcall-0.1.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{5,6,7} )
-
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="Backwards compatible callback APIs"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/takluyver/backcall"
-SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-
-LICENSE="BSD"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~x86"
-IUSE=""
-
-RDEPEND=""
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
-	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
diff --git a/profiles/pentoo/base/package.accept_keywords/dev-python b/profiles/pentoo/base/package.accept_keywords/dev-python
index a6c246483..9afa840c6 100644
--- a/profiles/pentoo/base/package.accept_keywords/dev-python
+++ b/profiles/pentoo/base/package.accept_keywords/dev-python
@@ -330,7 +330,6 @@ dev-python/pylnk3
 ~dev-python/javalang-0.12.0
 
 #~dev-util/frida-tools-1.2.3
-~dev-python/backcall-0.1.0
 
 # required by pwntools (argument)
 =dev-python/intervaltree-3.0*