diff --git a/profiles/default/linux/musl/package.mask b/profiles/default/linux/musl/package.mask
index c4367eb8487..9040df35b8e 100644
--- a/profiles/default/linux/musl/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/default/linux/musl/package.mask
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ sys-fs/udev
 
 # dev-libs/elfutils needs a port to musl, bug #602126
 dev-libs/elfutils
+=virtual/libelf-2
 
 # packages that unconditionally depend on dev-libs/elfutils
 <net-firewall/fwbuilder-5.3.7
diff --git a/profiles/default/linux/uclibc/package.mask b/profiles/default/linux/uclibc/package.mask
index da2e709730f..b86e9dbecf1 100644
--- a/profiles/default/linux/uclibc/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/default/linux/uclibc/package.mask
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ sys-fs/udev
 
 # Working on it, bug #470884
 dev-libs/elfutils
+=virtual/libelf-2
 
 # packages that unconditionally depend on dev-libs/elfutils
 <net-firewall/fwbuilder-5.3.7
diff --git a/virtual/libelf/libelf-1.ebuild b/virtual/libelf/libelf-1.ebuild
index b2acd4bb712..3cfc6c308b7 100644
--- a/virtual/libelf/libelf-1.ebuild
+++ b/virtual/libelf/libelf-1.ebuild
@@ -9,9 +9,4 @@ DESCRIPTION="Virtual for libelf.so.1 provider (dev-libs/elfutils)"
 SLOT="0/1"
 KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ia64 m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~arm-linux ~x86-linux ~amd64-fbsd ~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd"
 
-RDEPEND="
-	|| (
-		>=dev-libs/elfutils-0.155-r1:0/0[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
-		>=sys-freebsd/freebsd-lib-9.2_rc1[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
-		>=dev-libs/libelf-0.8.13-r2:0/0[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
-	)"
+RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/libelf-0.8.13-r2:0/0[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]"
diff --git a/virtual/libelf/libelf-2.ebuild b/virtual/libelf/libelf-2.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ab3e0afb047
--- /dev/null
+++ b/virtual/libelf/libelf-2.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+inherit multilib-build
+
+DESCRIPTION="Virtual for libelf.so.1 provider (dev-libs/elfutils)"
+SLOT="0/1"
+KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ia64 m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~arm-linux ~x86-linux ~amd64-fbsd ~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	|| (
+		>=dev-libs/elfutils-0.155-r1:0/0[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
+		>=sys-freebsd/freebsd-lib-9.2_rc1[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
+	)"