diff --git a/profiles/arch/amd64/package.use.force b/profiles/arch/amd64/package.use.force
index da5032b5b2ecf..4d23ba1334288 100644
--- a/profiles/arch/amd64/package.use.force
+++ b/profiles/arch/amd64/package.use.force
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
+# Eric Joldasov <bratishkaerik@landless-city.net> (2025-03-11)
+# "x86_64" backend can succesfully bootstrap itself for Linux.
+>=dev-lang/zig-0.13 -llvm
+
 # James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org> (2024-07-02)
 # Needed to build gcc. Force here rather than using BDEPEND to simplify
 # cross-compile scenarios.
diff --git a/profiles/arch/base/package.use.force b/profiles/arch/base/package.use.force
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..7914b1aeb2ca2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/profiles/arch/base/package.use.force
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Copyright 2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+# Eric Joldasov <bratishkaerik@landless-city.net> (2025-03-11)
+# Force building Zig with LLVM extensions enabled. Non-LLVM backends
+# are in active development, and while some backends progressed enough
+# to build some simple or complex program, only small amount of them
+# can succesfully bootstrap Zig.
+# Unforce on targets where it's possible to bootstrap without LLVM.
+dev-lang/zig llvm