diff --git a/app-text/poppler/metadata.xml b/app-text/poppler/metadata.xml
index 109736d0e28c0..2ea98abfb596c 100644
--- a/app-text/poppler/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-text/poppler/metadata.xml
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 	<name>Gentoo Printing Project</name>
 </maintainer>
 <use>
-	<flag name="introspection">Enable GObject introspection.</flag>
 	<flag name="utils">Install command-line PDF converters and various utilities.</flag>
 </use>
 <slots>