diff --git a/use.conf.d/system.conf b/use.conf.d/system.conf
index a83edce..67592ab 100644
--- a/use.conf.d/system.conf
+++ b/use.conf.d/system.conf
@@ -10,3 +10,6 @@ www-client/elinks -* bzip2 ipv6 zlib
 
 # by net-dns/bind-tools
 sys-libs/libseccomp static-libs
+
+# avoid pulling in w3m
+app-text/xmlto -text