diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1-r166.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1-r167.ebuild
similarity index 100%
rename from sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1-r166.ebuild
rename to sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1-r167.ebuild
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 a2c10b924d..a3c95b07c7 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
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	dev-util/gob
 	dev-util/gdbus-codegen
 	dev-util/gperf
-	dev-util/gtk-doc
 	>=dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.13
 	>=dev-util/intltool-0.30
 	dev-util/scons
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