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 c08824d3d8..24c5613d4b 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
@@ -38,10 +38,6 @@
 # needed to force enable ipvsadm for arm64
 =sys-cluster/ipvsadm-1.27-r1 **
 
-# needed to enable gcc 11.3.1_p20230120-r1 for arm64, a required version
-# for fixing build issues in glibc with gcc, w.r.t USE flag cet.
-=sys-devel/gcc-11.3.1_p20230120-r1 ~arm64
-
 =sys-firmware/edk2-aarch64-18.02 **
 =sys-libs/libselinux-3.1-r2 ~arm64
 =sys-libs/libsemanage-3.1-r1 ~arm64
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
index 5cfcb3d4b7..43f0dc859a 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
@@ -11,9 +11,6 @@
 =app-editors/vim-9.0.1157 ~amd64 ~arm64
 =app-editors/vim-core-9.0.1157 ~amd64 ~arm64
 
-# Keep the version of qemu the same on all arches.
-=app-emulation/qemu-7.2.0 ~arm64
-
 =coreos-devel/fero-client-0.1.1 **
 
 # Accept unstable host Rust compilers
@@ -28,10 +25,6 @@
 # Required for addressing CVE-2022-29154
 =net-misc/rsync-3.2.7-r2 ~amd64 ~arm64
 
-# Keep the version of curl the same on all arches.
-# Also needed for CVE-2022-43551 and CVE-2022-43552.
-=net-misc/curl-7.87.0-r2 ~arm64
-
 =sys-fs/cryptsetup-2.4.1-r1 ~amd64 ~arm64
 
 # Required for addressing CVE-2022-1304
@@ -49,7 +42,3 @@
 =sys-libs/liburing-2.1-r2 ~amd64 ~arm64
 
 =app-crypt/adcli-0.9.2 ~amd64 ~arm64
-
-# These are stable for amd64, so pull them in for arm64 too.
-=dev-libs/glib-2.74.4 ~arm64
-=dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.74.4 ~arm64