diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/package.use b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/package.use
index 5fb4a7c3d1..4e67ac1a50 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/package.use
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/package.use
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 app-admin/sudo		ldap sssd
 app-editors/vim		minimal
-dev-lang/python		-berkdb gdbm
+dev-lang/python		gdbm
 dev-libs/dbus-glib	tools
 dev-libs/elfutils	-utils
 dev-libs/openssl	pkcs11
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.use b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.use
index 4c1f3550ab..1bd1d2dcb6 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.use
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.use
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ coreos-base/update_engine delta_generator
 
 dev-vcs/git pcre
 
-dev-lang/python sqlite
-
 dev-lang/rust rustfmt
 
 # Allow smartcard support in the SDK for image signing