diff --git a/media-libs/a52dec/a52dec-0.7.4-r9.ebuild b/media-libs/a52dec/a52dec-0.7.4-r9.ebuild
index 5811ae7d4af99..f4642e94d4036 100644
--- a/media-libs/a52dec/a52dec-0.7.4-r9.ebuild
+++ b/media-libs/a52dec/a52dec-0.7.4-r9.ebuild
@@ -12,10 +12,7 @@ SRC_URI="https://liba52.sourceforge.net/files/${P}.tar.gz"
 LICENSE="GPL-2+"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos"
-IUSE="djbfft oss"
-
-RDEPEND="djbfft? ( >=sci-libs/djbfft-0.76-r2[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+IUSE="oss"
 
 PATCHES=(
 	"${FILESDIR}"/${P}-build.patch
@@ -43,7 +40,7 @@ src_prepare() {
 multilib_src_configure() {
 	ECONF_SOURCE="${S}" econf \
 		--enable-shared \
-		$(use_enable djbfft) \
+		--disable-djbfft \
 		$(usev !oss --disable-oss)
 
 	# remove useless subdirs
diff --git a/media-libs/a52dec/metadata.xml b/media-libs/a52dec/metadata.xml
index ee72c408eb265..84cc5ba18036a 100644
--- a/media-libs/a52dec/metadata.xml
+++ b/media-libs/a52dec/metadata.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,11 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-  <maintainer type="project">
-    <email>sound@gentoo.org</email>
-    <name>Gentoo Sound project</name>
-  </maintainer>
-  <use>
-    <flag name="djbfft">Prefer D.J. Bernstein's library for fourier transforms</flag>
-  </use>
-  <upstream>
-    <remote-id type="sourceforge">liba52</remote-id>
-  </upstream>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>sound@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Gentoo Sound project</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="sourceforge">liba52</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
 </pkgmetadata>