diff --git a/net-misc/wget2/metadata.xml b/net-misc/wget2/metadata.xml
index 42dea7a137046..fccb8f2a110e5 100644
--- a/net-misc/wget2/metadata.xml
+++ b/net-misc/wget2/metadata.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 	</maintainer>
 	<use>
 		<flag name="gpgme">Build <pkg>app-crypt/gpgme</pkg> backend</flag>
-		<flag name="openssl">Enable crypto support via <pkg>dev-libs/openssl</pkg></flag>
 		<flag name="psl">Use public suffix list via <pkg>net-libs/libpsl</pkg></flag>
 	</use>
 	<upstream>
diff --git a/net-misc/wget2/wget2-2.2.0.ebuild b/net-misc/wget2/wget2-2.2.0.ebuild
index 60cc36869db5e..1393d9c59cd4d 100644
--- a/net-misc/wget2/wget2-2.2.0.ebuild
+++ b/net-misc/wget2/wget2-2.2.0.ebuild
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SRC_URI="mirror://gnu/wget/${P}.tar.gz"
 LICENSE="GPL-3+ LGPL-3+"
 SLOT="0/0" # subslot = libwget.so version
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~loong ~x86"
-IUSE="brotli bzip2 doc +gnutls gpgme +http2 idn lzip lzma openssl pcre psl +ssl test xattr zlib"
+IUSE="brotli bzip2 doc +gnutls gpgme +http2 idn lzip lzma pcre psl +ssl test xattr zlib"
 
 RDEPEND="
 	brotli? ( app-arch/brotli )
diff --git a/net-misc/wget2/wget2-9999.ebuild b/net-misc/wget2/wget2-9999.ebuild
index 28200b483dae0..589aa64439d7e 100644
--- a/net-misc/wget2/wget2-9999.ebuild
+++ b/net-misc/wget2/wget2-9999.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ EGIT_REPO_URI="https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2.git"
 LICENSE="GPL-3+ LGPL-3+"
 SLOT="0/0" # subslot = libwget.so version
 KEYWORDS=""
-IUSE="brotli bzip2 doc +gnutls gpgme +http2 idn lzip lzma openssl pcre psl +ssl test xattr zlib"
+IUSE="brotli bzip2 doc +gnutls gpgme +http2 idn lzip lzma pcre psl +ssl test xattr zlib"
 
 RDEPEND="
 	brotli? ( app-arch/brotli )