diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use.mask b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use.mask
index a3bbe7766d..0e3644833e 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use.mask
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use.mask
@@ -19,3 +19,9 @@ app-editors/nano unicode
 
 # Pulls dev-python/sphinx, which in turn pulls a lot of other python stuff.
 sys-fs/btrfs-progs man
+
+# The dev-python/pillow package is pulled in by dev-python/docutils.
+# As the name suggests, it's for generating docs, which we don't even
+# put anywhere. Thus avoid pulling more dependencies than necessary
+# for throw-away things.
+dev-python/pillow jpeg