diff --git a/mail-client/thunderbird/metadata.xml b/mail-client/thunderbird/metadata.xml
index 0d7187e0a3e1e..79c8a5b0d1da5 100644
--- a/mail-client/thunderbird/metadata.xml
+++ b/mail-client/thunderbird/metadata.xml
@@ -10,8 +10,7 @@
 	<flag name="eme-free">Disable EME (DRM plugin) capability at build time</flag>
 	<flag name="hwaccel">Force-enable hardware-accelerated rendering (Mozilla bug 594876)</flag>
 	<flag name="libproxy">Enable libproxy support</flag>
-	<flag name="lto">Enable Link Time Optimization (LTO). Requires Gold linker when using GCC
-		or LDD linker when using Clang</flag>
+	<flag name="lto">Enable Link Time Optimization (LTO)</flag>
 	<flag name="openh264">Use <pkg>media-libs/openh264</pkg> for H.264 support
 		instead of downloading binary blob from Mozilla at runtime</flag>
 	<flag name="pgo">Add support for profile-guided optimization using gcc-4.5,