diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults
index 55be63312d..83d92968a5 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ USE="${USE} -openmp"
 # The git-r3 eclass now depends on curl support, which is used in catalyst.
 BOOTSTRAP_USE="${BOOTSTRAP_USE} curl"
 
+# Add `minimal` useflag to prevent texinfo to pull dev-lang/perl with not required set of dependencies.
+BOOTSTRAP_USE="${BOOTSTRAP_USE} minimal"
+
 # Set SELinux policy
 POLICY_TYPES="targeted mcs mls"
 
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
index 38146c4f66..e2690ee99f 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
@@ -141,3 +141,6 @@ sys-libs/ldb -lmdb -python
 
 # Enable nftables backend for the iptables instead of legacy backend
 net-firewall/iptables nftables
+
+# Install `perl` with a minimal set of dependencies
+dev-lang/perl minimal