diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/make.defaults b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/make.defaults
index b2e42a0e2f..4e24e741a1 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/make.defaults
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/make.defaults
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium OS Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-USE="acpi usb symlink-usr cryptsetup policykit"
+USE="acpi usb cryptsetup policykit"
 USE="${USE} -split-usr -cros_host -expat -cairo -X -man"
 USE="${USE} -acl -gpm -python"
 USE="${USE} -fortran -abiword -perl -cups -poppler-data"