diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
index d44cd8eaec..137a9e81af 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
@@ -101,10 +101,6 @@ sys-kernel/coreos-firmware -savedconfig
 # Make kmod support kernel modules compressed via lzma(xz)
 sys-apps/kmod lzma
 
-# net-libs/nghttp2 should be built with -cxx to avoid issues with boost 1.65.
-# configure script is not able to check if Boost:ASIO library exists.
-net-libs/nghttp2 -cxx
-
 # These (qmanifest and qtegrity) are new tools and they pull even more dependencies.
 app-portage/portage-utils -qmanifest -qtegrity