diff --git a/protocols/grpc/BUILD b/protocols/grpc/BUILD
index a01155b..155fe4e 100644
--- a/protocols/grpc/BUILD
+++ b/protocols/grpc/BUILD
@@ -18,18 +18,11 @@
     "@io_opencensus_opencensus_api//jar",
     "@io_opencensus_opencensus_contrib_grpc_metrics//jar",
     "@com_google_code_gson_gson//jar",
-    # Lazily adding all netty-related packages.
-    # Some of them might not be necessary.
-    "@io_netty_netty//jar",
-    "@io_netty_netty_buffer//jar",
-    "@io_netty_netty_codec//jar",
+    # Adding Netty http and http2 codecs
+    #     The rest of Netty is loaded in the onos-thirdparty-base feature
+    #     See tools/package/features/BUILD for more details
     "@io_netty_netty_codec_http//jar",
     "@io_netty_netty_codec_http2//jar",
-    "@io_netty_netty_common//jar",
-    "@io_netty_netty_handler//jar",
-    "@io_netty_netty_transport//jar",
-    "@io_netty_netty_transport_native_epoll//jar",
-    "@io_netty_netty_resolver//jar",
 ]
 
 onos_app(