diff --git a/media-gfx/darktable/metadata.xml b/media-gfx/darktable/metadata.xml
index f4900858d123c..b05ca306c75ad 100644
--- a/media-gfx/darktable/metadata.xml
+++ b/media-gfx/darktable/metadata.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 		<flag name="kwallet">Enable encrypted storage of passwords with <pkg>kde-frameworks/kwallet</pkg></flag>
 		<flag name="lto">Enable link-time optimisations in the RawSpeed library</flag>
 		<flag name="opencl">Enable opencl support</flag>
-		<flag name="system-lua">Use <pkg>dev-lang/lua</pkg> instead of the bundled liblua</flag>
 		<flag name="tools">Install tools for generating base curves and noise profiles</flag>
 	</use>
 	<upstream>