diff --git a/community/php7/APKBUILD b/community/php7/APKBUILD
index 901771e7f47d37272142b14df1326dbb98e1c993..c6c3009801b953e14516336ff9e2584d07f1a039 100644
--- a/community/php7/APKBUILD
+++ b/community/php7/APKBUILD
@@ -87,7 +87,6 @@ provider_priority=100
 subpackages="$pkgname-dbg $pkgname-dev $pkgname-doc
 	$pkgname-phpdbg $pkgname-apache2
 	$pkgname-embed $pkgname-cgi $pkgname-fpm
-	$pkgname-litespeed
 	$pkgname-pear::noarch
 	"
 source="https://php.net/distributions/$_pkgreal-$pkgver.tar.xz
@@ -175,6 +174,9 @@ for _ext in $_extensions; do
 done
 subpackages="$subpackages $pkgname-common::noarch"
 
+# see https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/12775
+[ "$CARCH" != "riscv64" ] && subpackages="$subpackages $pkgname-litespeed"
+
 # secfixes:
 #   7.4.21-r0:
 #     - CVE-2021-21705
@@ -390,12 +392,14 @@ build() {
 		--with-apxs2
 	mv libs/libphp$_suffix.so sapi/apache2handler/mod_php$_suffix.so
 
+	local enable_litespeed
+	[ -z ${subpackages##*-litespeed*} ] && enable_litespeed=--enable-litespeed
 	# cgi, cli, fpm, embed, pear, litespeed
 	_build --enable-phpdbg \
 		--enable-phpdbg-webhelper \
 		--with-pear=/usr/share/$pkgname \
 		--enable-fpm \
-		--enable-litespeed \
+		$enable_litespeed \
 		--enable-embed
 }