diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
index b847b7e454..74c8bb2a5f 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 
 =dev-util/shflags-1.0.3 ~amd64
 =dev-util/perf-4.9.13 ~amd64
-=sys-libs/libnih-1.0.3 ~amd64
 
 # Everything needed for the boot engine
 >=sys-apps/kexec-tools-2.0.4-r1 ~amd64