diff --git a/hacking/ansible-profile b/hacking/ansible-profile
index 6612402da62..8681cb739d4 100755
--- a/hacking/ansible-profile
+++ b/hacking/ansible-profile
@@ -9,17 +9,6 @@ import traceback
 import ansible.constants as C
 from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
 
-#__requires__ = ['ansible']
-try:
-    import pkg_resources
-except Exception:
-    # Use pkg_resources to find the correct versions of libraries and set
-    # sys.path appropriately when there are multiversion installs.  But we
-    # have code that better expresses the errors in the places where the code
-    # is actually used (the deps are optional for many code paths) so we don't
-    # want to fail here.
-    pass
-
 target = sys.argv.pop(1)
 myclass = "%sCLI" % target.capitalize()