diff --git a/profiles/base/make.defaults b/profiles/base/make.defaults
index b5cbd7f8143ba..e2840c75ce278 100644
--- a/profiles/base/make.defaults
+++ b/profiles/base/make.defaults
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres10 postgres11"
 # Moreover, it should only contain targets that have a stable version
 # of PHP, to avoid pulling in an unstable PHP on stable systems.
 #
-PHP_TARGETS="php7-2 php7-3 php7-4"
+PHP_TARGETS="php7-3 php7-4"
 
 # Alfredo Tupone <tupone@gentoo.org> (2019-09-03)
 #