diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.use b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.use
index 993a6052ee..d9c79b5d07 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.use
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.use
@@ -2,6 +2,3 @@
 
 # Disable gssapi for arm64 to avoid build errors
 net-dns/bind-tools -gssapi
-
-# FIXME: why isn't this set by default???
-sys-libs/ncurses unicode