diff --git a/profiles/base/package.use.mask b/profiles/base/package.use.mask
index 6bca4b6608f31..7a5f697a14aa5 100644
--- a/profiles/base/package.use.mask
+++ b/profiles/base/package.use.mask
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@
 
 # Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> (2022-05-03)
 # sndio is currently broken in Gentoo, #842420.
-# system-python is HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL according to upstream, and
+# system-python-libs is HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL according to upstream, and
 # still being worked on in Gentoo.
->=www-client/firefox-100.0 sndio system-python
+>=www-client/firefox-100.0 sndio system-python-libs
 
 # Piotr Karbowski <slashbeast@gentoo.org> (2022-04-29)
 # There's a bug with gnutls support leading TLS certificates