diff --git a/dev-python/lxml/metadata.xml b/dev-python/lxml/metadata.xml
index f6f0b1f4433b1..086b32604647f 100644
--- a/dev-python/lxml/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/lxml/metadata.xml
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
   <herd>python</herd>
-  <use>
-    <flag name="beautifulsoup3">Enable support for Beautiful Soup 3</flag>
-  </use>
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="pypi">lxml</remote-id>
   </upstream>