diff --git a/srcpkgs/yt-play/INSTALL.msg b/srcpkgs/yt-play/INSTALL.msg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2024d8c9017
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/yt-play/INSTALL.msg
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+yt-play is no longer provided by Void Linux, and will be fully removed from the repos on 2019/02/17
diff --git a/srcpkgs/yt-play/template b/srcpkgs/yt-play/template
index 4f247b5d783..843e5a597d8 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/yt-play/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/yt-play/template
@@ -1,16 +1,9 @@
 # Template file for 'yt-play'
 pkgname=yt-play
 version=20140117
-revision=1
-_commit=390b9f37a52dee2f4fa9ec596a3e8e4be3fbe546
-wrksrc="$pkgname-$_commit"
+revision=2
 noarch=yes
-build_style=gnu-makefile
-hostmakedepends="git"
-makedepends="youtube-dl curl"
-short_desc="Useful scripts to play youtube videos from command line"
-maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
-license="GPL-3"
+build_style=meta
+short_desc="Useful scripts to play youtube videos from command line (removed package)"
+license="metapackage"
 homepage="https://github.com/trufae/yt-play"
-distfiles="$homepage/archive/$_commit.tar.gz"
-checksum=48ac94edb0d4ae15ffd60ba941ab83378927e77080423a54856b4466e6c23298