diff --git a/awxkit/requirements.txt b/awxkit/requirements.txt
index 6c9fdba970..9c558e357c 100644
--- a/awxkit/requirements.txt
+++ b/awxkit/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-PyYAML
-requests
+.
diff --git a/awxkit/setup.py b/awxkit/setup.py
index 2f304f2600..7dac7a7b8e 100644
--- a/awxkit/setup.py
+++ b/awxkit/setup.py
@@ -2,12 +2,6 @@ import os
 import glob
 import shutil
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages, Command
-try:  # for pip >= 10
-    from pip._internal.req import parse_requirements
-except ImportError:  # for pip <= 9.0.3
-    from pip.req import parse_requirements
-
-requirements = [str(r.req) for r in parse_requirements('requirements.txt', session=False)]
 
 
 def get_version():
@@ -66,7 +60,10 @@ setup(
         'clean': CleanCommand,
     },
     include_package_data=True,
-    install_requires=requirements,
+    install_requires=[
+        'PyYAML',
+        'requests',
+    ],
     python_requires=">=3.6",
     extras_require={
         'formatting': ['jq'],