diff --git a/profiles/arch/arm/package.use.stable.mask b/profiles/arch/arm/package.use.stable.mask
index 4d21342561701..b945eac922666 100644
--- a/profiles/arch/arm/package.use.stable.mask
+++ b/profiles/arch/arm/package.use.stable.mask
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
+# Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> (2021-03-04)
+# Dependencies not yet stable, drags in
+# large amount of fabric. bug #763954
+sys-block/open-iscsi infiniband
+
 # Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> (2021-02-09)
 # dev-libs/libgdata is not (yet?) stable on arm
 # bug #769767, bug #769764
diff --git a/profiles/arch/x86/package.use.stable.mask b/profiles/arch/x86/package.use.stable.mask
index efebb3e3fc3db..11c231b259c49 100644
--- a/profiles/arch/x86/package.use.stable.mask
+++ b/profiles/arch/x86/package.use.stable.mask
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
 
 #--- END OF EXAMPLES ---
 
+# Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> (2021-03-04)
+# Dependencies not yet stable, drags in
+# large amount of fabric. bug #763954
+sys-block/open-iscsi infiniband
+
 # Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> (2020-10-05)
 # REQUIRED_USE="base? ( firebird )", dev-db/firebird is not stable
 app-office/libreoffice base