diff --git a/dev-libs/libpcre2/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/libpcre2/metadata.xml
index 04cdf69f6d5d3..41adcbfc8a8ff 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libpcre2/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-libs/libpcre2/metadata.xml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 			Add support for command line editing to pcretest, through
 			<pkg>sys-libs/readline</pkg>.
 		</flag>
-		<flag name="valgrind">Support Valgrind for <pkg>dev-util/valgrind</pkg> annotations to improve results for memcheck.</flag>
+		<flag name="valgrind">Support Valgrind (<pkg>dev-util/valgrind</pkg>) with annotations to improve results for memcheck.</flag>
 		<flag name="zlib">
 			Add support for pcregrep command to search within
 			gzip-compressed files (via <pkg>sys-libs/zlib</pkg>).