diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
index 011688d232..1e4bf6def4 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
@@ -193,3 +193,6 @@ dev-util/xdelta lzma
 # required by app-containers/incus-6.0.3-r1::portage-stable
 # required by incus (argument)
 sys-libs/libcap static-libs
+
+# do not force a dependency on llvm-core/llvm yet
+dev-lang/rust -system-llvm