diff --git a/comps-sync-exclude-list.yml b/comps-sync-exclude-list.yml
index 699b956..3e68bf7 100644
--- a/comps-sync-exclude-list.yml
+++ b/comps-sync-exclude-list.yml
@@ -1,12 +1,6 @@
 # This file has a list of packages to skip from comps that we don't want, plus
 # a few include listed things.
 
-# For some reason today these are just in livecd-tools...
-include_list:
-  - kernel
-  - kernel-modules
-  - kernel-modules-extra
-
 # Entirely skip all packages in libreoffice
 exclude_list_groups:
   - libreoffice
diff --git a/comps-sync.py b/comps-sync.py
index 1b14b08..7c236de 100755
--- a/comps-sync.py
+++ b/comps-sync.py
@@ -100,7 +100,6 @@ manifest_packages = load_packages_from_manifest(manifest_path)
 with open('comps-sync-exclude-list.yml', encoding='UTF-8') as f:
     doc = yaml.safe_load(f)
     comps_exclude_list = doc['exclude_list']
-    comps_include_list = doc['include_list']
     comps_exclude_list_groups = doc['exclude_list_groups']
     comps_desktop_exclude_list = doc['desktop_exclude_list']
     comps_exclude_list_all = [re.compile(x) for x in doc['exclude_list_all_regexp']]
@@ -135,8 +134,7 @@ for arch in manifest_packages:
         else:
             if pkg in ws_pkgs and arch in ws_pkgs[pkg][2]:
                 continue
-        if (pkg not in comps_include_list):
-            comps_unknown.add((pkg, arch))
+        comps_unknown.add((pkg, arch))
 
 # Look for packages in the manifest but not in comps at all
 n_manifest_new = len(comps_unknown)
diff --git a/fedora-common-ostree-pkgs.yaml b/fedora-common-ostree-pkgs.yaml
index 34a6717..9dde184 100644
--- a/fedora-common-ostree-pkgs.yaml
+++ b/fedora-common-ostree-pkgs.yaml
@@ -95,8 +95,6 @@ packages:
   - iwlwifi-dvm-firmware
   - iwlwifi-mvm-firmware
   - kbd
-  - kernel
-  - kernel-modules-extra
   - less
   - libertas-firmware
   - libglvnd-gles
diff --git a/fedora-common-ostree.yaml b/fedora-common-ostree.yaml
index 524e0b0..a94de60 100644
--- a/fedora-common-ostree.yaml
+++ b/fedora-common-ostree.yaml
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ include: fedora-common-ostree-pkgs.yaml
 #   aarch64: bootupd.yaml
 
 packages:
+  # Ensure that we have a kernel. Kernel packages are not in any comps group
+  - kernel
+  - kernel-modules
+  - kernel-modules-extra
   # Do not include "full" Git as it brings in Perl
   - git-core
   # Explicitely add Git docs