diff --git a/requirements/edx/base.txt b/requirements/edx/base.txt
index 27d6ced011..3d9c186596 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/edx/base.txt
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ python-openid==2.2.5
 pytz==2012h
 PyYAML==3.10
 requests==0.14.2
+scipy==0.11.0
 Shapely==1.2.16
 sorl-thumbnail==11.12
 South==0.7.6
diff --git a/requirements/edx/post.txt b/requirements/edx/post.txt
index e1e26b381a..b637b65db0 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/post.txt
+++ b/requirements/edx/post.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,2 @@
-
-# This must be installed after distribute 0.6.28
-MySQL-python==1.2.4c1
-
-# This must be installed after numpy
-scipy==0.11.0
+# This must be installed after distribute has been updated.
+MySQL-python==1.2.4