diff --git a/app-emulation/qemu/metadata.xml b/app-emulation/qemu/metadata.xml
index e6ed85bf1f7ef..f38823b3990e0 100644
--- a/app-emulation/qemu/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-emulation/qemu/metadata.xml
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@
 		<flag name="ssh">Enable SSH based block device support via <pkg>net-libs/libssh2</pkg></flag>
 		<flag name="static-user">Build the User targets as static binaries</flag>
 		<flag name="static">Build the User and Software MMU (system) targets as well as tools as static binaries</flag>
-		<flag name="snappy">Enable support for snappy compression</flag>
 		<flag name="systemtap">Enable SystemTAP/DTrace tracing</flag>
 		<flag name="tci">Enable the TCG Interpreter which can speed up or slowdown workloads depending on the host and guest CPUs being emulated. In the future it will be a runtime option but for now its compile time.</flag>
 		<flag name="jpeg">Enable jpeg image support for the VNC console server</flag>
diff --git a/dev-libs/c-blosc/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/c-blosc/metadata.xml
index 2b3831ea197b1..24926d9922627 100644
--- a/dev-libs/c-blosc/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-libs/c-blosc/metadata.xml
@@ -12,9 +12,6 @@
 	fast. Blosc is meant not only to reduce the size of large datasets on-disk
 	or in-memory, but also to accelerate memory-bound computations.
 	</longdescription>
-	<use>
-		<flag name="snappy">Enable snappy compression</flag>
-	</use>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">Blosc/c-blosc</remote-id>
 	</upstream>
diff --git a/dev-libs/leveldb/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/leveldb/metadata.xml
index 056bf21ff5384..0ee1800285cc4 100644
--- a/dev-libs/leveldb/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-libs/leveldb/metadata.xml
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
     <email>patrick@gentoo.org</email>
     <name>Patrick Lauer</name>
   </maintainer>
-  <use>
-    <flag name="snappy">support the snappy compression library</flag>
-  </use>
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="github">google/leveldb</remote-id>
     <bugs-to>https://github.com/google/leveldb/issues</bugs-to>
diff --git a/dev-python/fastparquet/metadata.xml b/dev-python/fastparquet/metadata.xml
index 0866e1d45e836..09db6ed207351 100644
--- a/dev-python/fastparquet/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/fastparquet/metadata.xml
@@ -19,6 +19,5 @@
   </upstream>
   <use>
     <flag name="brotli">Enable support for brotli compression</flag>    
-    <flag name="snappy">Enable support for snappy compression</flag>
   </use>
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/kafka-python/metadata.xml b/dev-python/kafka-python/metadata.xml
index 0f2c9d5f988c6..943670ce90375 100644
--- a/dev-python/kafka-python/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/kafka-python/metadata.xml
@@ -5,11 +5,6 @@
   <longdescription>
       Python client for Apache Kafka
   </longdescription>
-  <use>
-    <flag name="snappy">
-        Install snappy compression/decompression support
-    </flag>
-  </use>
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="github">dpkp/kafka-python</remote-id>
     <remote-id type="pypi">kafka-python</remote-id>
diff --git a/net-analyzer/wireshark/metadata.xml b/net-analyzer/wireshark/metadata.xml
index 03dc8e4024ecd..3e0355cd9ccc4 100644
--- a/net-analyzer/wireshark/metadata.xml
+++ b/net-analyzer/wireshark/metadata.xml
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ be exported to XML, PostScript®, CSV, or plain text.
 <flag name="sdjournal">Install sdjournal, an extcap that captures systemd journal entries</flag>
 <flag name="sharkd">Install sharkd, the daemon variant of wireshark</flag>
 <flag name="smi">Use <pkg>net-libs/libsmi</pkg> to resolve numeric OIDs into human readable format</flag>
-<flag name="snappy">Use <pkg>app-arch/snappy</pkg> for snappy compression and decompression</flag>
 <flag name="spandsp">Use <pkg>media-libs/spandsp</pkg> for for G.722 and G.726 codec support in the RTP Player</flag>
 <flag name="sshdump">Install sshdump, an extcap interface to capture from a remote host through SSH</flag>
 <flag name="text2pcap">Install text2pcap, to generate a capture file from an ASCII hexdump of packets</flag>
diff --git a/sys-fs/lessfs/metadata.xml b/sys-fs/lessfs/metadata.xml
index b5086c36b11b1..32f99a253e866 100644
--- a/sys-fs/lessfs/metadata.xml
+++ b/sys-fs/lessfs/metadata.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 	<use>
 		<flag name="filelog">Enable the ability to log to a file instead of syslog</flag>
 		<flag name="memtrace">Enable leefs to create a report regarding the memory allocation. This feature should be used for debugging purposes to avoid performance degradation</flag>
-		<flag name="snappy">Enable snappy compression using the <pkg>app-arch/snappy</pkg> library</flag>
 	</use>
 	<longdescription lang="en">
 Data deduplication (often called “intelligent compression” or “single-instance storage”) is a method of reducing storage needs by eliminating redundant data. Data deduplication is often used for backup purposes and for virtual machine image storage. lessfs can determine if data is redundant by calculating a unique (192 bit) tiger hash of each block of data that is written. When lessfs has determined that a block of data needs to be stored it first compresses the block with LZO or QUICKLZ compression. The combination of these two techniques results in a very high overall compression rate for many types of data. Multimedia files like mp3, avi or jpg files can not be compressed by lessfs when they are only stored once on the filesystem.