diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1549eb8..b0c0c68 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
-# delegates to requirements/live-requirements.txt
--r requirements/development-requirements.txt
+bump2version
+pytest
+python-dateutil
+scipy
+matplotlib
+setuptools
diff --git a/requirements/development-requirements.txt b/requirements/development-requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index d89712b..0000000
--- a/requirements/development-requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-# DEPENDENCIES COMMON TO ALL ENVIRONMENTS
-
-# unclear if these are actually needed
-# attrs
-# iniconfig
-# matplotlib
-# packaging
-# py
-# pyparsing
-# python-dateutil
-# toml
-
-# the below are definitely called as imports within the code
-scipy
-
-# DEVELOPMENT-ONLY DEPENDENCIES
-
-# testing
-pytest
-
-# code linting and formatting
-autopep8
-black
-
-# for bumping the version
-bump2version
-
-
-