diff --git a/conf/intel/portage/package.mask b/conf/intel/portage/package.mask
index 37fc6fa..c427ac5 100644
--- a/conf/intel/portage/package.mask
+++ b/conf/intel/portage/package.mask
@@ -185,8 +185,5 @@ gnustep-apps/terminal
 >app-i18n/fcitx-4.1
 >app-i18n/fcitx-configtool-0.3
 
-# 29-12-2011 Joost Ruis: Keep Ruby 1.9 masked for now
->=dev-lang/ruby-1.9.0
-
 # 2012-02-15 Joost Ruis: Only use pymol from our overlay since it has depends on python-tk  
 sci-chemistry/pymol::gentoo