diff --git a/dev-python/argparse/Manifest b/dev-python/argparse/Manifest
deleted file mode 100644
index b7f1d1c21e..0000000000
--- a/dev-python/argparse/Manifest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-DIST argparse-1.4.0.tar.gz 70508 BLAKE2B 7bc250ea4203f40d67d9a78ca046f7a2023df742a254426cdae551abb2edabb4beba8d3cef7c848e2e98ffd682a80638cf85689ddeab6b4ddcd3fd98e6d2572f SHA512 9941f9d26c43169f947c9efadda6239349e1f9df80ff5fcdba3070bc7b43c43ab6bb4b7f0c7eee8e5d06231a17a7e9ee9eb73c7a9bb68ebe5d13f879686d61b2
diff --git a/dev-python/argparse/argparse-1.4.0.ebuild b/dev-python/argparse/argparse-1.4.0.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ee3b584ce..0000000000
--- a/dev-python/argparse/argparse-1.4.0.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..9} )
-
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="Python command-line parsing library"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/ThomasWaldmann/argparse/"
-SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="PYTHON"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64"
diff --git a/dev-python/argparse/metadata.xml b/dev-python/argparse/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index cbe3c6a539..0000000000
--- a/dev-python/argparse/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM 'http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd'>
-<pkgmetadata>
-	<maintainer type="person">
-		<email>smaniotto.nicola@gmail.com</email>
-		<name>Nicola Smaniotto</name>
-	</maintainer>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/media-video/ffsubsync/ffsubsync-0.4.11.ebuild b/media-video/ffsubsync/ffsubsync-0.4.11.ebuild
index a4cc9bbc70..84410fb6e4 100644
--- a/media-video/ffsubsync/ffsubsync-0.4.11.ebuild
+++ b/media-video/ffsubsync/ffsubsync-0.4.11.ebuild
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ KEYWORDS="~amd64"
 
 RDEPEND="
 	dev-python/auditok[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/argparse[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/cchardet[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/ffmpeg-python[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/future[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
@@ -27,6 +26,11 @@ RDEPEND="
 	>=dev-python/srt-3.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/tqdm[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
 	dev-python/webrtcvad[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	"
+"
 
 distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+python_prepare_all() {
+	sed "/argparse/d" -i requirements.txt || die
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
+}