diff --git a/profiles/default/linux/package.use.mask b/profiles/default/linux/package.use.mask
index a735ef9ab5332..bcccd3d85afa1 100644
--- a/profiles/default/linux/package.use.mask
+++ b/profiles/default/linux/package.use.mask
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Id$
 
+# Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org> (03 Sep 2015)
+# Native inotify support is preferred on linux.
+app-misc/strigi fam
+kde-base/kdelibs fam
+kde-frameworks/kcoreaddons fam
+
 # Christian Ruppert <idl0r@gentoo.org> (23 Aug 2015)
 # seccomp seems completely broken currently but has been added as global default
 # apparently... #558100