diff --git a/build/requirements_base.txt b/build/requirements_base.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index b020601af..000000000
--- a/build/requirements_base.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-Twisted==16.6.0
-appdirs==1.4.3
-argparse==1.2.1
-base58==0.2.2
-colorama==0.3.7
-dnspython==1.12.0
-ecdsa==0.13
-envparse==0.2.0
-gmpy==1.17
-jsonrpc==1.2
-jsonrpclib==0.1.7
-jsonschema==2.5.1
-git+https://github.com/lbryio/lbryschema.git@v0.0.3#egg=lbryschema
-git+https://github.com/lbryio/lbryum.git@v2.7.20#egg=lbryum
-miniupnpc==1.9
-pbkdf2==1.3
-protobuf==3.0.0
-pycrypto==2.6.1
-pyyaml==3.12
-qrcode==5.2.2
-requests==2.9.1
-txrequests==0.9.5
-seccure==0.3.1.3
-service_identity==16.0.0
-six>=1.9.0
-slowaes==0.1a1
-txJSON-RPC==0.5
-wsgiref==0.1.2
-zope.interface==4.3.3