diff --git a/net-news/quiterss/metadata.xml b/net-news/quiterss/metadata.xml
index 329100ec2fcda..56fe54721bb32 100644
--- a/net-news/quiterss/metadata.xml
+++ b/net-news/quiterss/metadata.xml
@@ -5,10 +5,6 @@
     <email>qt@gentoo.org</email>
     <name>Gentoo Qt Project</name>
   </maintainer>
-  <use>
-    <flag name="phonon">Enable sound support via <pkg>media-libs/phonon</pkg>
-      or <pkg>dev-qt/qtphonon</pkg></flag>
-  </use>
   <upstream>
     <remote-id type="github">QuiteRSS/quiterss</remote-id>
   </upstream>
diff --git a/net-news/quiterss/quiterss-0.18.4.ebuild b/net-news/quiterss/quiterss-0.18.4.ebuild
index 70273ffe42079..76a7d9d1ffafc 100644
--- a/net-news/quiterss/quiterss-0.18.4.ebuild
+++ b/net-news/quiterss/quiterss-0.18.4.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
@@ -19,25 +19,18 @@ fi
 
 LICENSE="GPL-3"
 SLOT="0"
-IUSE="phonon qt5"
+IUSE=""
 
 RDEPEND=">=dev-db/sqlite-3.11.1:3
-	!qt5? ( dev-qt/qtcore:4[ssl]
-		dev-qt/qtgui:4
-		dev-qt/qtsingleapplication[X,qt4(+)]
-		dev-qt/qtsql:4[sqlite]
-		dev-qt/qtwebkit:4
-		phonon? ( || ( media-libs/phonon[qt4] dev-qt/qtphonon:4 ) ) )
-	qt5? ( dev-qt/qtcore:5
-		dev-qt/qtgui:5
-		dev-qt/qtmultimedia:5
-		dev-qt/qtnetwork:5[ssl]
-		dev-qt/qtprintsupport:5
-		dev-qt/qtsingleapplication[X,qt5(-)]
-		dev-qt/qtsql:5[sqlite]
-		dev-qt/qtwebkit:5
-		dev-qt/qtwidgets:5
-		dev-qt/qtxml:5 )"
+	dev-qt/qtgui:5
+	dev-qt/qtmultimedia:5
+	dev-qt/qtnetwork:5[ssl]
+	dev-qt/qtprintsupport:5
+	dev-qt/qtsingleapplication[X,qt5(-)]
+	dev-qt/qtsql:5[sqlite]
+	dev-qt/qtwebkit:5
+	dev-qt/qtwidgets:5
+	dev-qt/qtxml:5"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	virtual/pkgconfig"
 
@@ -62,12 +55,7 @@ src_configure() {
 		PREFIX="${EPREFIX}/usr"
 		SYSTEMQTSA=1
 	)
-	if use qt5; then
-		eqmake5 "${myqmakeargs[@]}"
-	else
-		eqmake4 "${myqmakeargs[@]}" \
-			$(usex phonon '' 'DISABLE_PHONON=1')
-	fi
+	eqmake5 "${myqmakeargs[@]}"
 }
 
 src_install() {