diff --git a/profiles/base/package.use.mask b/profiles/base/package.use.mask
index fe62ae2b0873d..fe2cf44c50b49 100644
--- a/profiles/base/package.use.mask
+++ b/profiles/base/package.use.mask
@@ -248,8 +248,8 @@ dev-db/mysql client-libs
 dev-db/percona-server client-libs
 
 # Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> (2018-02-02)
-# This feature is not ready yet pre-2.30, see bug 146882 comment 26
-<sys-libs/glibc-2.30 compile-locales
+# This feature is not ready yet pre-2.29-r4, see bug 146882 comment 26
+<sys-libs/glibc-2.29-r4 compile-locales
 
 # Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org> (2018-01-10)
 # Failing tests, with extra deps that aren't keyworded due to that