diff --git a/profiles/default/linux/amd64/13.0/backbone/desktop/make.defaults b/profiles/default/linux/amd64/13.0/backbone/desktop/make.defaults
index 3966e79d..95b941fb 100644
--- a/profiles/default/linux/amd64/13.0/backbone/desktop/make.defaults
+++ b/profiles/default/linux/amd64/13.0/backbone/desktop/make.defaults
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ USE="${USE} acpi"
 # develop
 USE="${USE} bash-completion cscope -debug -fortran \
             -lua -mono pch \
-            -tcl -tidy -tk -tokenizer"
+            -tcl -tidy -tk -tokenizer \
+            vim-syntax"
 
 # daemons
 USE="${USE} consolekit daemon dbus -hal logrotate samba syslog"
diff --git a/profiles/hardened/linux/amd64/backbone/no-multilib/make.defaults b/profiles/hardened/linux/amd64/backbone/no-multilib/make.defaults
index 0a6be186..02b73bc1 100644
--- a/profiles/hardened/linux/amd64/backbone/no-multilib/make.defaults
+++ b/profiles/hardened/linux/amd64/backbone/no-multilib/make.defaults
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ USE="${USE} acpi"
 # develop
 USE="${USE} bash-completion cscope -debug -fortran -java \
             -introspection -lua -mono pch \
-            -tcl -tidy -tk"
+            -tcl -tidy -tk \
+            vim-syntax"
 
 # daemons
 USE="${USE} -consolekit daemon -dbus -hal logrotate"