diff --git a/app-admin/hardinfo2/files/remove-optimization-flag.patch b/app-admin/hardinfo2/files/remove-optimization-flag.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 30d0fb8407..0000000000
--- a/app-admin/hardinfo2/files/remove-optimization-flag.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff '--color=auto' -aur a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
---- a/CMakeLists.txt	2024-11-28 02:48:17.057740689 -0600
-+++ b/CMakeLists.txt	2024-11-28 02:51:56.721795566 -0600
-@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@
- 	modules/benchmark/md5.c
- 	modules/benchmark/sha1.c
- 	PROPERTIES
--	COMPILE_FLAGS "-O0 -Wall -Wextra -Werror=implicit-function-declaration"
-+	COMPILE_FLAGS "-Wall -Wextra -Werror=implicit-function-declaration"
- )
- 
- set_source_files_properties(
diff --git a/app-admin/hardinfo2/hardinfo2-2.2.4-r2.ebuild b/app-admin/hardinfo2/hardinfo2-2.2.4-r2.ebuild
index 8876afe929..1dbabd61d7 100644
--- a/app-admin/hardinfo2/hardinfo2-2.2.4-r2.ebuild
+++ b/app-admin/hardinfo2/hardinfo2-2.2.4-r2.ebuild
@@ -43,7 +43,10 @@ RDEPEND="
 "
 BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
 
-PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}/remove-optimization-flag.patch" )
+src_prepare() {
+	sed -i -e 's:-O0 ::' CMakeLists.txt || die
+	cmake_src_prepare
+}
 
 src_configure() {
 	filter-flags -O*