diff --git a/chroot_version_hooks.d/48_old_host_pkgs b/chroot_version_hooks.d/48_old_host_pkgs
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index 0000000000..42ff367b93
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+++ b/chroot_version_hooks.d/48_old_host_pkgs
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium OS Authors. All rights reserved.
+# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+# found in the LICENSE file.
+
+# Clean out some packages that we dropped from hard-host-depends.
+
+pkgs=(
+  dev-libs/eggdbus
+  dev-perl/File-Next
+  dev-python/requests
+  perl-core/MIME-Base64
+  sys-apps/ack
+  sys-apps/fakeroot
+  sys-devel/asan-clang
+)
+sudo CLEAN_DELAY=0 emerge -qC "${pkgs[@]}"
+
+exit 0