diff --git a/dev-qt/qtwayland/metadata.xml b/dev-qt/qtwayland/metadata.xml
index 6ad9fdf05847c..5aa0b525d0092 100644
--- a/dev-qt/qtwayland/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-qt/qtwayland/metadata.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 		<name>Gentoo Qt Project</name>
 	</maintainer>
 	<use>
-		<flag name="egl">Use EGL instead of GLX to manage OpenGL contexts</flag>
 		<flag name="qml">Build QML/QtQuick bindings</flag>
 		<flag name="wayland-compositor">Build Qt compositor for wayland</flag>
 	</use>
diff --git a/dev-qt/qtwayland/qtwayland-5.6.2.ebuild b/dev-qt/qtwayland/qtwayland-5.6.2.ebuild
index a268ee01062cf..d427008009c6f 100644
--- a/dev-qt/qtwayland/qtwayland-5.6.2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-qt/qtwayland/qtwayland-5.6.2.ebuild
@@ -10,13 +10,13 @@ if [[ ${QT5_BUILD_TYPE} == release ]]; then
 	KEYWORDS="amd64 arm hppa ~ppc ppc64 x86"
 fi
 
-IUSE="egl qml wayland-compositor xcomposite"
+IUSE="qml wayland-compositor xcomposite"
 
 DEPEND="
 	>=dev-libs/wayland-1.4.0
 	~dev-qt/qtcore-${PV}
-	~dev-qt/qtgui-${PV}[egl=]
-	media-libs/mesa[egl?]
+	~dev-qt/qtgui-${PV}[egl]
+	media-libs/mesa[egl]
 	>=x11-libs/libxkbcommon-0.2.0
 	wayland-compositor? (
 		qml? ( ~dev-qt/qtdeclarative-${PV} )
diff --git a/dev-qt/qtwayland/qtwayland-5.7.1.ebuild b/dev-qt/qtwayland/qtwayland-5.7.1.ebuild
index 7adc8405b7e9d..b90f33e3e8ee9 100644
--- a/dev-qt/qtwayland/qtwayland-5.7.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-qt/qtwayland/qtwayland-5.7.1.ebuild
@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@ if [[ ${QT5_BUILD_TYPE} == release ]]; then
 	KEYWORDS="amd64 arm ~arm64 ~hppa ppc ppc64 x86"
 fi
 
-IUSE="egl xcomposite"
+IUSE="xcomposite"
 
 DEPEND="
 	>=dev-libs/wayland-1.4.0
 	~dev-qt/qtcore-${PV}
 	~dev-qt/qtdeclarative-${PV}
-	~dev-qt/qtgui-${PV}[egl=]
-	media-libs/mesa[egl?]
+	~dev-qt/qtgui-${PV}[egl]
+	media-libs/mesa[egl]
 	>=x11-libs/libxkbcommon-0.2.0
 	xcomposite? (
 		x11-libs/libX11