diff --git a/conf/intel/portage/package.mask b/conf/intel/portage/package.mask
index 4a39f33b..468b8837 100644
--- a/conf/intel/portage/package.mask
+++ b/conf/intel/portage/package.mask
@@ -163,3 +163,6 @@ sci-chemistry/pymol::gentoo
 
 # 2012-12-14 Fabio Erculiani: it is causing annoying sh errors on chroots
 ~app-shells/autojump-21.1.0
+
+# 2012-12-31 Fabio Erculiani: temp mask apache-2.4, we're not ready yet
+>=www-servers/apache-2.3