diff --git a/media-gfx/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan/files/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan-20210521-no-lto.patch b/media-gfx/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan/files/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan-20210521-no-lto.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..301f6fca4276f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/media-gfx/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan/files/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan-20210521-no-lto.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+Users should be the ones to choose to add -flto or not and how. The test
+may also cause unnecessary noise wrt https://bugs.gentoo.org/830950
+--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -42,13 +42,4 @@
+ 
+ # enable global link time optimization
+-cmake_policy(SET CMP0069 NEW)
+-set(CMAKE_POLICY_DEFAULT_CMP0069 NEW)
+-include(CheckIPOSupported)
+-check_ipo_supported(RESULT ipo_supported OUTPUT ipo_supported_output)
+-if(ipo_supported)
+-    set(CMAKE_INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION TRUE)
+-else()
+-    message(WARNING "IPO is not supported: ${ipo_supported_output}")
+-endif()
+ 
+ if(USE_SYSTEM_NCNN)
diff --git a/media-gfx/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan-20210521.ebuild b/media-gfx/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan-20210521.ebuild
index 3079c5c096f09..cc5fc8bd42a02 100644
--- a/media-gfx/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan-20210521.ebuild
+++ b/media-gfx/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan/waifu2x-ncnn-vulkan-20210521.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ DEPEND="
 	${RDEPEND}
 	dev-util/vulkan-headers"
 
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-20210521-no-lto.patch
+)
+
 src_prepare() {
 	CMAKE_USE_DIR="${S}/src"
 	cmake_src_prepare