diff --git a/conf/intel/portage/package.mask/00-sabayon.package.mask b/conf/intel/portage/package.mask/00-sabayon.package.mask
index dd3391cd..efbe4943 100644
--- a/conf/intel/portage/package.mask/00-sabayon.package.mask
+++ b/conf/intel/portage/package.mask/00-sabayon.package.mask
@@ -136,9 +136,11 @@ virtual/linux-sources::gentoo
 www-servers/apache::gentoo
 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers::gentoo
 
-# temp mask
->media-libs/x265-3.1.2
-
 # 2020-06-21 Joost Ruis: Mask app-text/texlive-core from Portage
 # Can be unmasked when split poppler gets bumped
 app-text/texlive-core::gentoo
+
+# 2020-06-28 Joost Ruis: Prevent pulling in python >3.6 
+dev-lang/python:3.7
+dev-lang/python:3.8
+dev-lang/python:3.9