diff --git a/media-libs/flac/flac-1.3.3.ebuild b/media-libs/flac/flac-1.3.3.ebuild
index b3aea9e2746ae..0a616c50a7d78 100644
--- a/media-libs/flac/flac-1.3.3.ebuild
+++ b/media-libs/flac/flac-1.3.3.ebuild
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SRC_URI="https://downloads.xiph.org/releases/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz"
 LICENSE="BSD FDL-1.2 GPL-2 LGPL-2.1"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~mips ppc ~ppc64 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~sparc-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
-IUSE="altivec +cxx debug ogg cpu_flags_x86_sse static-libs"
+IUSE="+cxx debug ogg cpu_flags_ppc_altivec cpu_flags_ppc_vsx cpu_flags_x86_sse static-libs"
 
 RDEPEND="ogg? ( >=media-libs/libogg-1.3.0[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ multilib_src_configure() {
 		--disable-examples
 		--disable-xmms-plugin
 		$([[ ${CHOST} == *-darwin* ]] && echo "--disable-asm-optimizations")
-		$(use_enable altivec)
+		$(use_enable cpu_flags_ppc_altivec altivec)
+		$(use_enable cpu_flags_ppc_vsx vsx)
 		$(use_enable cpu_flags_x86_sse sse)
 		$(use_enable cxx cpplibs)
 		$(use_enable debug)