diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/profile.bashrc b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/profile.bashrc
index 90c5cf4e5d..3e89f0fb61 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/profile.bashrc
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/profile.bashrc
@@ -5,23 +5,6 @@ CROS_BUILD_BOARD_BIN="${CROS_BUILD_BOARD_TREE}/bin"
 
 CROS_ADDONS_TREE="/mnt/host/source/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos"
 
-# Are we merging for the board sysroot, or for the cros sdk, or for
-# the target hardware?  Returns a string:
-#  - cros_host (the sdk)
-#  - board_sysroot
-#  - target_image
-# We can't rely on "use cros_host" as USE gets filtred based on IUSE,
-# and not all packages have IUSE=cros_host.
-cros_target() {
-	if [[ ${CROS_SDK_HOST} == "cros-sdk-host" ]] ; then
-		echo "cros_host"
-	elif [[ ${ROOT%/} == ${SYSROOT%/} ]] ; then
-		echo "board_sysroot"
-	else
-		echo "target_image"
-	fi
-}
-
 # Are we merging for the board sysroot, or for the SDK, or for
 # the images? Returns a string in a passed variable:
 #
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/make.defaults b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/make.defaults
index d0da1b9838..3fb2f4e9a7 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/make.defaults
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/make.defaults
@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@ FLATCAR_TYPE=sdk
 
 USE="cros_host expat man -pam"
 
-# Used by some old goo in profiles/coreos/base/profile.bashrc
-# TODO: clean up that old goo
-CROS_SDK_HOST="cros-sdk-host"
-
 # Enable CPU architectures needed by Rust builds
 LLVM_TARGETS="X86 AArch64"