diff --git a/dev-lang/perl/metadata.xml b/dev-lang/perl/metadata.xml
index c36cc7ac87808..993685cc10e13 100644
--- a/dev-lang/perl/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-lang/perl/metadata.xml
@@ -5,10 +5,6 @@
 		<email>perl@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Gentoo Perl Project</name>
 	</maintainer>
-	<use>
-		<flag name="ithreads">Enable Perl threads, has some compatibility problems</flag>
-		<flag name="quadmath">Enable 128bit floating point arithmetic via libquadmath</flag>
-	</use>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="cpe">cpe:/a:perl:perl</remote-id>
 		<remote-id type="github">Perl/perl5</remote-id>