diff --git a/profiles/arch/riscv/package.use.mask b/profiles/arch/riscv/package.use.mask
index d08d9da02fb54..6222428831395 100644
--- a/profiles/arch/riscv/package.use.mask
+++ b/profiles/arch/riscv/package.use.mask
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # Copyright 2019-2023 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
+# Violet Purcell <vimproved@inventati.org> (2023-10-12)
+# dev-util/samurai is not keyworded here.
+app-alternatives/ninja samurai
+
 # Ionen Wolkens <ionen@gentoo.org> (2023-10-09)
 # media-libs/shaderc is keyworded here.
 media-libs/libplacebo -shaderc