One package that we should never install via a R/DEPEND is glibc. But from time to time an ebuild will creep into the tree which explicitly depends on glibc and portage will build and install glibc for you. This would leave your system in an unstable state, so we prevent that behavior here by the use of this masking.

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+# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/uclibc/package.mask,v 1.1 2004/09/29 19:50:11 solar Exp $
+
+# 27 Sep 2004; <carpaski@gentoo.org> (gentoo-core mailing list)
+# Profiles have a package.mask for ARCHITECTURE related masking. There 
+# must be an explicitly defined reason for using this file in any 
+# particular way. It is NOT a general-use file. It is for specific 
+# instances that involve incompatibilities between libs and specific 
+# profiles.
+
+# 29 Sep 2004; <solar@gentoo.org> 
+# One package that we should never install via a R/DEPEND is glibc. But 
+# from time to time an ebuild will creep into the tree which explicitly 
+# depends on glibc and portage will build and install glibc for you.
+# This would leave your system in an unstable state, so we prevent that 
+# behavior here by the use of this masking.
+##############################################################################
+
+sys-libs/glibc