diff --git a/sys-power/cpupower/cpupower-4.13.0.ebuild b/sys-power/cpupower/cpupower-4.13.0.ebuild
index 88366fc8d73a3..b3ea8ec6d4359 100644
--- a/sys-power/cpupower/cpupower-4.13.0.ebuild
+++ b/sys-power/cpupower/cpupower-4.13.0.ebuild
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SRC_URI="https://dev.gentoo.org/~floppym/dist/${P}.tar.xz"
 LICENSE="GPL-2"
 SLOT="0/0"
 KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ppc ~ppc64 x86"
-IUSE="cpufreq_bench nls"
+IUSE="nls"
 
 # File collision w/ headers of the deprecated cpufrequtils
 RDEPEND="sys-apps/pciutils
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ src_configure() {
 	export confdir="${EPREFIX}/etc"
 	export V=1
 	export NLS=$(usex nls true false)
-	export CPUFREQ_BENCH=$(usex cpufreq_bench true false)
 }
 
 src_compile() {
diff --git a/sys-power/cpupower/metadata.xml b/sys-power/cpupower/metadata.xml
index 470032972666e..5bcecc2e84841 100644
--- a/sys-power/cpupower/metadata.xml
+++ b/sys-power/cpupower/metadata.xml
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
 		<email>floppym@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Mike Gilbert</name>
 	</maintainer>
-	<use>
-		<flag name="cpufreq_bench">Build and install the cpufreq_bench binary</flag>
-	</use>
 	<slots>
 		<subslots>Subslots correspond to major version of libcpupower</subslots>
 	</slots>