diff --git a/dev-debug/strace/metadata.xml b/dev-debug/strace/metadata.xml
index dc906e983cd0e..92bc671452f94 100644
--- a/dev-debug/strace/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-debug/strace/metadata.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
 		<flag name="aio">
 			Enable <pkg>dev-libs/libaio</pkg> support for tracing Asynchronous I/O operations
 		</flag>
+		<flag name="elfutils">
+			Enable stack backtraces (-k flag) via <pkg>dev-libs/elfutils</pkg>
+		</flag>
 		<flag name="ncurses">
 			Make color support available via <pkg>sys-libs/ncurses</pkg>.
 			At runtime, if enabled, defaults to 'auto', but can be
@@ -17,9 +20,6 @@
 		<flag name="unwind">
 			Enable stack backtraces (-k flag) via <pkg>sys-libs/libunwind</pkg>
 		</flag>
-		<flag name="elfutils">
-			Enable stack backtraces (-k flag) via <pkg>dev-libs/elfutils</pkg>
-		</flag>
 	</use>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">strace/strace</remote-id>