diff --git a/conf/intel/repo/sabayon-limbo/packages.db.mask b/conf/intel/repo/sabayon-limbo/packages.db.mask
index 0d63a96..b4893a9 100644
--- a/conf/intel/repo/sabayon-limbo/packages.db.mask
+++ b/conf/intel/repo/sabayon-limbo/packages.db.mask
@@ -1,2 +1,7 @@
-# Notify OSD must die with GNOME3
-x11-misc/notify-osd
+# Mask apache using MPM worker for now
+www-servers/apache[threads]
+
+
+# 2012-02-29: mask Python 3, many packages are now
+# featuring dependencies like "dev-lang/python"
+>=dev-lang/python-3.0
diff --git a/conf/intel/repo/sabayonlinux.org/packages.db.mask b/conf/intel/repo/sabayonlinux.org/packages.db.mask
index a18282a..b4893a9 100644
--- a/conf/intel/repo/sabayonlinux.org/packages.db.mask
+++ b/conf/intel/repo/sabayonlinux.org/packages.db.mask
@@ -1,2 +1,7 @@
 # Mask apache using MPM worker for now
 www-servers/apache[threads]
+
+
+# 2012-02-29: mask Python 3, many packages are now
+# featuring dependencies like "dev-lang/python"
+>=dev-lang/python-3.0