diff --git a/dev-haskell/skylighting/metadata.xml b/dev-haskell/skylighting/metadata.xml
index e4e3cb3a2ce1a..bd25baabc3661 100644
--- a/dev-haskell/skylighting/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-haskell/skylighting/metadata.xml
@@ -6,18 +6,8 @@
 		<name>Gentoo Haskell</name>
 	</maintainer>
 	<use>
-		<flag name="executable">Build the skylighting executable.</flag>
+		<flag name="executable">Whether to build the skylighting program</flag>
 	</use>
-	<longdescription>
-		Skylighting is a syntax highlighting library with
-		support for over one hundred languages.  It derives
-		its tokenizers from XML syntax definitions used
-		by KDE's KSyntaxHighlighting framework, so any
-		syntax supported by that framework can be added.
-		An optional command-line program is provided.
-		Skylighting is intended to be the successor to
-		highlighting-kate.
-	</longdescription>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="hackage">skylighting</remote-id>
 		<remote-id type="github">jgm/skylighting</remote-id>