diff --git a/profiles/arch/alpha/package.mask b/profiles/arch/alpha/package.mask
index d51d079133e10..43ab5d88a716c 100644
--- a/profiles/arch/alpha/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/arch/alpha/package.mask
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
+# Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org> (01 Mar 2017)
+# Mask to prevent unsolvable deps on masked g-sorcery
+# USE on app-portage/layman
+app-portage/g-sorcery
+
 # Alexey Shvetsov <alexxy@gentoo.org> (21 May 2012)
 # Need deps pecl-apc and pecl-uploadprogress bug #416897
 >=www-apps/drupal-7.14