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 abb87d9cfa..48304fb61a 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
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ sys-apps/texinfo-4.13
 
 sys-devel/autoconf-2.63-r1
 sys-devel/automake-1.10.2
-sys-devel/bc-1.06.95
 sys-devel/bison-2.3
 sys-devel/gettext-0.18.1-r1
 sys-devel/gnuconfig-20090203
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-kernel/coreos-kernel-3.9.3.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-kernel/coreos-kernel-3.9.3.ebuild
index 5f37c3fe78..06d1dbdf2a 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-kernel/coreos-kernel-3.9.3.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-kernel/coreos-kernel-3.9.3.ebuild
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ CROS_WORKON_REPO="git://github.com"
 CROS_WORKON_PROJECT="coreos/linux"
 inherit cros-workon cros-kernel2
 
+DEPEND="
+	sys-devel/bc
+"
+
 DESCRIPTION="CoreOS kernel"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.kernel.org"
 SRC_URI="${KERNEL_URI}"