diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/default/linux/package.provided b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/default/linux/package.provided
index 7e87b34be8..9cb0c2094b 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/default/linux/package.provided
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/default/linux/package.provided
@@ -5,3 +5,7 @@
 # even a simple mta (like ssmtp).  http://crosbug.com/5777
 mail-mta/ssmtp-2.64
 net-mail/mailbase-1
+
+# Ideally baselayout should have a use flag to select between openrc
+# and systemd but this works in the mean time.
+sys-apps/openrc-9999
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/targets/coreos/package.provided b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/targets/coreos/package.provided
index 48304fb61a..c6c0cd8179 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/targets/coreos/package.provided
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/targets/coreos/package.provided
@@ -81,4 +81,3 @@ media-fonts/encodings-1.0.3
 
 # Our chromeos-base package takes care of this.
 app-misc/editor-wrapper-4
-sys-apps/openrc-0.11.8