diff --git a/profiles/arch/sparc/package.use.mask b/profiles/arch/sparc/package.use.mask
index 563e0062553a2..13fdb26f61b95 100644
--- a/profiles/arch/sparc/package.use.mask
+++ b/profiles/arch/sparc/package.use.mask
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
+# Rolf Eike Beer <eike@sf-mail.de> (2020-04-11)
+# uses slot 0 of dev-lang/spidermonkey that is broken on sparc
+www-client/elinks javascript
+
 # Rolf Eike Beer <eike@sf-mail.de> (2020-04-11)
 # Required dependencies are not keyworded.
 x11-themes/qtcurve plasma