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 d456fff0a0..7708ed3450 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
@@ -7,9 +7,6 @@ dev-lang/ruby berkdb
 dev-util/catalyst ccache
 dev-lang/python sqlite
 
-# only required until gtk-doc and friends is pruned from everyone's SDKs
-dev-libs/libxml2 python
-
 # for qemu
 app-arch/bzip2 static-libs
 app-emulation/qemu static-user