diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0801826b..a53a9a4f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ gearman
 httplib2
 ntplib
 pymongo
-pylint
 psutil>=2.2.1,<3.1.0
 python-memcached
 PyYAML