diff --git a/profiles/base/package.use.stable.mask b/profiles/base/package.use.stable.mask
index fdb48f4946ce2..f2d038f1ddd8f 100644
--- a/profiles/base/package.use.stable.mask
+++ b/profiles/base/package.use.stable.mask
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@
 # This file requires eapi 5 or later. New entries go on top.
 # Please use the same syntax as in package.use.mask
 
+# Bernard Cafarelli <voyageur@gentoo.org> (09 Jan 2017)
+# Alternative Objective-C backend, requires more testing
+# and additional unstable dependencies
+gnustep-base/gnustep-make libobjc2
+
 # Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org> (04 Jan 2017)
 # libcxx is not stable so we can't let users use it
 dev-lang/rust libcxx