diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/make.defaults b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/make.defaults
index f013ceb858..e1adc647ca 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/make.defaults
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/make.defaults
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium OS Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-USE="cros-debug acpi usb symlink-usr usrmerge cryptsetup policykit"
-USE="${USE} -cros_host -expat -cairo -X -man"
+USE="cros-debug acpi usb symlink-usr cryptsetup policykit"
+USE="${USE} -split-usr -cros_host -expat -cairo -X -man"
 USE="${USE} -acl -gpm -python"
 USE="${USE} -fortran -abiword -perl -cups -poppler-data -nls"