diff --git a/update_chroot b/update_chroot
index 39cb16e..dc47dce 100755
--- a/update_chroot
+++ b/update_chroot
@@ -86,9 +86,7 @@
 
 # Make sure depot_tools is bootstrapped, so that it can build chromeos-chrome.
 info "Bootstrapping depot_tools"
-# depot_tools doesn't support Python 3 at all.
-# TODO(crbug.com/984182): Drop EPYTHON setting if they ever finish.
-EPYTHON="python2" ensure_bootstrap
+ensure_bootstrap
 
 # Perform an update of all the sdk packages in the chroot.
 EMERGE_CMD="${CHROMITE_BIN}/parallel_emerge"