diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.use b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.use
index 6a1aa5217e..32d5b4b6da 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.use
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.use
@@ -7,3 +7,5 @@ dev-lang/ruby berkdb
 dev-util/catalyst ccache
 dev-lang/python sqlite
 
+# only required until gtk-doc and friends is pruned from everyone's SDKs
+dev-libs/libxml2 python