diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 944751f3c1..28b12404a1 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -51,5 +51,6 @@ pygraphviz
 pil
 nltk
 dogstatsd-python
-MySQL-python
+# Taking out MySQL-python for now because it requires mysql to be installed, so breaks updates on content folks' envs.
+# MySQL-python
 sphinx