diff --git a/files/debs/swift b/files/debs/swift
index 0089d27fee..726786ee18 100644
--- a/files/debs/swift
+++ b/files/debs/swift
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 curl
 make
 memcached
-# NOTE python-nose only exists because of swift functional job, we should probably
-# figure out a more consistent way of installing this from test-requirements.txt instead
-python-nose
 sqlite3
 xfsprogs
diff --git a/files/rpms-suse/general b/files/rpms-suse/general
index 2219426141..42756d8fcc 100644
--- a/files/rpms-suse/general
+++ b/files/rpms-suse/general
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ openssh
 openssl
 psmisc
 python-cmd2 # dist:opensuse-12.3
-python-pylint
 screen
 tar
 tcpdump
diff --git a/files/rpms-suse/horizon b/files/rpms-suse/horizon
index d1f378a70d..c45eae6153 100644
--- a/files/rpms-suse/horizon
+++ b/files/rpms-suse/horizon
@@ -12,7 +12,5 @@ python-coverage
 python-dateutil
 python-eventlet
 python-mox
-python-nose
-python-pylint
 python-sqlalchemy-migrate
 python-xattr
diff --git a/files/rpms-suse/swift b/files/rpms-suse/swift
index 4b14098064..9c0d188fe2 100644
--- a/files/rpms-suse/swift
+++ b/files/rpms-suse/swift
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ python-devel
 python-eventlet
 python-greenlet
 python-netifaces
-python-nose
 python-simplejson
 python-xattr
 sqlite3
diff --git a/files/rpms/general b/files/rpms/general
index e17d6d6458..7b2c00ad5c 100644
--- a/files/rpms/general
+++ b/files/rpms/general
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ libxml2-devel
 libxslt-devel
 pkgconfig
 psmisc
-pylint
 python-devel
 screen
 tar
diff --git a/files/rpms/horizon b/files/rpms/horizon
index 8d7f0371ef..b2cf0ded6f 100644
--- a/files/rpms/horizon
+++ b/files/rpms/horizon
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 Django
 httpd # NOPRIME
 mod_wsgi  # NOPRIME
-pylint
 pyxattr
 pcre-devel  # pyScss