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 774d3072fd..9078a1712c 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
@@ -34,10 +34,6 @@
 # needed to force enable ipvsadm for arm64
 =sys-cluster/ipvsadm-1.27-r1 **
 
-# needed to enable gcc 11.3.1_p20230120-r1 for arm64, a required version
-# for fixing build issues in glibc with gcc, w.r.t USE flag cet.
-=sys-devel/gcc-11.3.1_p20230120-r1 ~arm64
-
 =sys-firmware/edk2-aarch64-18.02 **
 =sys-libs/libselinux-3.1-r2 ~arm64
 =sys-libs/libsemanage-3.1-r1 ~arm64