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 336271e7c1..acaec24a5b 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
@@ -66,8 +66,6 @@ RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	net-misc/google-cloud-sdk
 	sys-apps/usbutils
 	sys-apps/systemd
-	!sys-apps/nih-dbus-tool
-	sys-libs/libnih
 	sys-libs/nss-usrfiles
 	sys-power/iasl
 	virtual/udev
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