diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
index d85332b774..ec7948c8e6 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2013 The CoreOS Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-=dev-python/ws4py-0.2.4 ~amd64
 =dev-cpp/gflags-2.0 ~amd64
-=sys-devel/smatch-1.57-r1 ~amd64
 =dev-util/shflags-1.0.3 ~amd64
 =dev-util/perf-4.9.13 ~amd64
 =sys-libs/libnih-1.0.3 ~amd64
@@ -26,8 +24,6 @@ dev-util/checkbashisms
 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548158
 =sys-apps/gentoo-functions-0.10
 
-=dev-python/pyusb-1.0.0 ~amd64
-
 # Older versions of sssd fail to build
 =sys-auth/sssd-1.13.1 ~amd64 ~arm64
 
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
index 7e3a5b1ad9..08042b1104 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
@@ -5,24 +5,16 @@
 
 app-arch/tar		minimal
 app-crypt/mit-krb5	-keyutils
-dev-embedded/libftdi	-cxx
 dev-libs/nss		utils
 dev-libs/dbus-glib	tools
 dev-libs/protobuf 	-python
 dev-libs/libxml2	-python
-dev-perl/GD             png
-dev-python/ws4py	-client -server
 dev-util/perf		tui -doc
 dev-vcs/git		cvs subversion webdav curl bash-completion
 dev-vcs/subversion	-dso webdav-serf
-media-libs/freeimage	-cxx
-media-libs/gd           png
-media-libs/libmtp       -crypt
 # We don't want any driver/hw rendering on the host
-media-sound/alsa-utils	-libsamplerate minimal
 net-misc/curl		kerberos threads
 net-misc/iputils	arping traceroute
-sci-geosciences/gpsd	-cxx
 sys-devel/gettext	-git
 app-emulation/qemu	aio caps curl jpeg ncurses png python threads uuid vhost-net virtfs vnc qemu_softmmu_targets_x86_64
 
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/package.accept_keywords b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/package.accept_keywords
index 495f02bc7f..e69de29bb2 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/package.accept_keywords
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/package.accept_keywords
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-=app-emulation/lxc-0.8.0-r1	~amd64 ~x86
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 24bf0ed15e..4852ebb51c 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
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2009 The Chromium OS Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-app-admin/rsyslog	-ssl
 app-editors/vim		minimal
 dev-lang/python		-berkdb gdbm
 dev-libs/dbus-glib	tools
@@ -14,7 +13,6 @@ net-analyzer/tcpdump	-chroot
 net-misc/dhcp	        -server
 net-misc/iperf		threads
 net-misc/ntp            caps
-sys-apps/busybox	-selinux
 sys-apps/smartmontools	minimal
 sys-block/parted        device-mapper
 sys-fs/lvm2		-lvm1 -readline
@@ -30,8 +28,6 @@ net-libs/libmicrohttpd epoll
 
 sys-boot/syslinux       -custom-cflags
 
-sys-apps/flashrom -dediprog -ft2232_spi -serprog
-
 # break dependency loop between pkg-config and glib
 dev-util/pkgconfig internal-glib
 
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 7708ed3450..5b2159b5a3 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
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 coreos-base/update_engine delta_generator
-sys-apps/flashrom dediprog ft2232_spi serprog
 
 dev-vcs/git pcre
-dev-lang/ruby berkdb
 
 dev-util/catalyst ccache
 dev-lang/python sqlite