diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1.ebuild
index 9eddf6e8b0..d75a66e750 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1.ebuild
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	coreos-base/cros-devutils[cros_host]
 	coreos-base/cros-factoryutils
 	coreos-base/cros-testutils
-	dev-lang/python
+	=dev-lang/python-2*
+	dev-python/setuptools
 	dev-db/m17n-contrib
 	dev-db/m17n-db
 	dev-lang/closure-compiler-bin