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 beae759049..81d03e8df9 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
@@ -29,8 +29,6 @@ app-misc/editor-wrapper *
 # needed by arm64-native SDK
 =dev-python/ctypesgen-0_p72-r1 *
 
-=dev-python/flake8-2.5.4 ~arm64
-
 # needed by arm64-native SDK
 =dev-python/lazy-object-proxy-1.2.1 *