diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.accept_keywords b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.accept_keywords
index f85a194b11..b6060b1d83 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.accept_keywords
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.accept_keywords
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 =dev-cpp/glog-0.3.4-r1 ~arm64
 =dev-lang/perl-5.24.1-r2 ~arm64
 =dev-lang/swig-3.0.12 ~arm64
-=dev-libs/apr-util-1.5.4-r1 ~arm64
 =dev-libs/ding-libs-0.4.0 **
 =dev-libs/elfutils-0.169-r1 ~arm64
 =dev-libs/libassuan-2.5.1 ~arm64
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 c92ec70682..8e431ab5ff 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
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ dev-util/glib-utils python_single_target_python3_6
 sys-apps/gptfdisk -icu
 
 # for profile migration
-dev-libs/apr-util -gdbm
 sys-libs/gdbm berkdb
 
 dev-vcs/git -pcre-jit -perl -iconv