diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.provided b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.provided
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-# Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium OS Authors. All rights reserved.
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-# We don't send mail anywhere, so don't bother trying to install
-# even a simple mta (like ssmtp).  http://crosbug.com/5777
-mail-mta/ssmtp-2.64
-net-mail/mailbase-1