diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/eclass/ninja-utils.eclass b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/eclass/ninja-utils.eclass
index e6d8c9e6c0..5a211e8113 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/eclass/ninja-utils.eclass
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/eclass/ninja-utils.eclass
@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@
 
 # @ECLASS: ninja-utils.eclass
 # @MAINTAINER:
-# Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
-# Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
+# base-system@gentoo.org
 # @AUTHOR:
 # Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
 # Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
@@ -48,6 +47,12 @@ _NINJA_UTILS_ECLASS=1
 # supposed to be set in make.conf. If unset, eninja() will convert
 # MAKEOPTS instead.
 
+# @ECLASS_VARIABLE: NINJA_VERBOSE
+# @USER_VARIABLE
+# @DESCRIPTION:
+# Set to OFF to disable verbose messages during compilation
+: "${NINJA_VERBOSE:=ON}"
+
 inherit multiprocessing
 
 case "${NINJA}" in
@@ -80,7 +85,12 @@ get_NINJAOPTS() {
 # also supports being called via 'nonfatal'.
 eninja() {
 	[[ -n "${NINJA_DEPEND}" ]] || ewarn "Unknown value '${NINJA}' for \${NINJA}"
-	set -- "${NINJA}" -v $(get_NINJAOPTS) "$@"
+	local v
+	case "${NINJA_VERBOSE}" in
+		OFF) ;;
+		*) v="-v"
+	esac
+	set -- "${NINJA}" ${v} $(get_NINJAOPTS) "$@"
 	echo "$@" >&2
 	"$@" || die -n "${*} failed"
 }