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 85ff1d83d2..bad964ff16 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
@@ -197,9 +197,5 @@ app-emulation/open-vmdk -python
 # Avoid pulling extra perl packages
 dev-perl/File-Slurper minimal
 
-# We don't need debuginfod support.
-dev-debug/gdb -debuginfod
-dev-libs/elfutils -debuginfod -libarchive
-sys-devel/binutils -debuginfod
-cross-x86_64-cros-linux-gnu/gdb -debuginfod
-cross-aarch64-cros-linux-gnu/gdb -debuginfod
+# This is only needed for debuginfod support, which we masked.
+dev-libs/elfutils -libarchive
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/use.mask b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/use.mask
index b110ca2d87..930f943f47 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/use.mask
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/use.mask
@@ -10,3 +10,6 @@ nls
 
 # We don't care about GObject introspection.
 introspection
+
+# We don't need debuginfod support.
+debuginfod