diff --git a/profiles/prefix/package.use.mask b/profiles/prefix/package.use.mask
index c101c1896932d..71cdac1f6bc00 100644
--- a/profiles/prefix/package.use.mask
+++ b/profiles/prefix/package.use.mask
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
+# Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> (2020-06-07)
+# installing kernels has no business in Prefix
+sys-apps/debianutils installkernel
+
 # Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@gentoo.org> (2019-05-02)
 # gold is linux only, and is required by cxx
 sys-devel/binutils cxx gold default-gold