diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/amd64/sdk/make.defaults b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/amd64/sdk/make.defaults
index 3d3db02e02..254f8753a5 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/amd64/sdk/make.defaults
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/amd64/sdk/make.defaults
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
 # Enable optimizations for common x86_64 CPUs
 CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mtune=generic"
 CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
-
-# add cros_host to bootstrapping USE flags so SDK / toolchains bootstrapping
-# will use vim's vimrc instead of baselayouts',
-BOOTSTRAP_USE="$BOOTSTRAP_USE cros_host"
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/make.defaults b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/make.defaults
index 84da663059..9577fb9179 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/make.defaults
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/make.defaults
@@ -18,3 +18,7 @@ QEMU_USER_TARGETS="aarch64"
 
 # Disable ccache in the SDK so it stops randomly breaking catalyst.
 FEATURES="-ccache"
+
+# add cros_host to bootstrapping USE flags so SDK / toolchains bootstrapping
+# will use vim's vimrc instead of baselayouts',
+BOOTSTRAP_USE="$BOOTSTRAP_USE cros_host"