diff --git a/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords b/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
index e549bcf10bd..0ed5114fde9 100644
--- a/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
+++ b/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
@@ -26,9 +26,6 @@ dev-util/checkbashisms
 # Must use the same version across all architectures
 =dev-libs/protobuf-2.6.1-r3
 
-# mtools 4.0.18 has '-i' flag for working with images
-=sys-fs/mtools-4.0.18
-
 # All versions are ~amd64 and not enabled on arm64
 =sys-apps/nvme-cli-1.1 **