diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults
index d45b88ea6b..7376f240e6 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ USE_EXPAND="${USE_EXPAND} BOARD_USE CROS_WORKON_TREE TESTS U_BOOT_CONFIG_USE U_B
 USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN="${USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN} CROS_WORKON_TREE"
 
 # Extra use flags for CoreOS SDK
-USE="${USE} cros_host pic pie expat -introspection -cups -tcpd -pcre -berkdb"
+USE="${USE} cros_host expat -introspection -cups -tcpd -pcre -berkdb"
 
 # Enable bindist for both SDK and targets
 USE="${USE} bindist"
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use.force b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use.force
index 164c019aee..bd6530bb7e 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use.force
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use.force
@@ -1,6 +1,2 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2014 The CoreOS Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-# Make sure stage1 bootstrapping does not disable kmod,
-# systemd 213 does not properly build without it.
-~sys-apps/systemd-213 kmod
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 48a93350cf..da6df7e100 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
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 USE="cros-debug acpi usb symlink-usr cryptsetup policykit -pam"
-USE="${USE} -cros_host -expat -pic -pie -cairo -X"
+USE="${USE} -cros_host -expat -cairo -X"
 USE="${USE} -acl -cracklib -gpm -openmp -python -sha512"
 USE="${USE} -fortran -abiword -perl -cups -poppler-data -nls"