diff --git a/releases/portage/stages-musl/package.mask/releng/gcc-musl-repo b/releases/portage/stages-musl/package.mask/releng/gcc-musl-repo
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+++ b/releases/portage/stages-musl/package.mask/releng/gcc-musl-repo
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+# we need gcc from musl repo that contains pure64 patches
+# https://github.com/gentoo/musl/issues/351
+sys-devel/gcc::gentoo
diff --git a/releases/portage/stages-musl/package.use/releng/libpcre b/releases/portage/stages-musl/package.use/releng/libpcre
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+++ b/releases/portage/stages-musl/package.use/releng/libpcre
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+# required by sys-libs/libselinux-2.7
+dev-libs/libpcre static-libs
+
+# required by dev-vcs/git
+dev-libs/libpcre2 jit
diff --git a/releases/portage/stages-musl/package.use/releng/no-filecaps b/releases/portage/stages-musl/package.use/releng/no-filecaps
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+++ b/releases/portage/stages-musl/package.use/releng/no-filecaps
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+# For stage building, we cannot be sure the final unpack destination will have
+# xattr/fcaps support.  To be safe, we build stages without filecaps, but allow
+# filecaps to be turned back on @ next full world upgrade.  The ebuilds using
+# fcaps eclass will have more logic to safely fall back in case of missing
+# support.
+
+*/* -filecaps