diff --git a/gnome-base/gnome-common/gnome-common-3.18.0-r1.ebuild b/gnome-base/gnome-common/gnome-common-3.18.0-r1.ebuild
index 5d99893cf7f21..24db11b7dda91 100644
--- a/gnome-base/gnome-common/gnome-common-3.18.0-r1.ebuild
+++ b/gnome-base/gnome-common/gnome-common-3.18.0-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ HOMEPAGE="https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-common"
 LICENSE="GPL-3"
 SLOT="3"
 KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm ~arm64 hppa ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 ~s390 ~sh sparc x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~sparc-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
-IUSE="+autoconf-archive"
 
 RDEPEND=""
 DEPEND=""
diff --git a/gnome-base/gnome-common/metadata.xml b/gnome-base/gnome-common/metadata.xml
index 1340d1a31fcd3..39980802b1da1 100644
--- a/gnome-base/gnome-common/metadata.xml
+++ b/gnome-base/gnome-common/metadata.xml
@@ -5,8 +5,4 @@
 	<email>gnome@gentoo.org</email>
 	<name>Gentoo GNOME Desktop</name>
 </maintainer>
-<use>
-	<flag name="autoconf-archive">Pull in <pkg>sys-devel/autoconf-archive</pkg> for ax_*.m4 files
-		instead of installing them from the gnome-common tarball</flag>
-</use>
 </pkgmetadata>