diff --git a/profiles/features/musl/packages b/profiles/features/musl/packages
index 4bbf9c32099c1..a3dc9087872ca 100644
--- a/profiles/features/musl/packages
+++ b/profiles/features/musl/packages
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation.
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors.
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 *app-misc/pax-utils
 *sys-apps/sandbox
 -*sys-apps/man-pages
+
+# Provides the `locale` binary, which is not present in musl itself
+*sys-apps/musl-locales