diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.accept_keywords b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.accept_keywords
index b05cebe1ab..4a7c01eb2e 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.accept_keywords
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.accept_keywords
@@ -29,8 +29,6 @@ app-misc/editor-wrapper *
 # needed by arm64-native SDK
 dev-util/checkbashisms *
 
-=dev-util/ninja-1.8.2 ~arm64
-
 # needed by arm64-native SDK
 dev-util/patchelf *