diff --git a/.readthedocs.yml b/.readthedocs.yml
index 5ae4b96a0..d180ab09a 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yml
@@ -1,15 +1,11 @@
 version: 2
 
-formats:
-  - pdf
-
 build:
   image: latest
 
 python:
   version: 3.8
   install:
-    - requirements: docs/requirements.txt
     - method: pip
       path: .
       extra_requirements:
diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index c3655b9dd..000000000
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-# We still need this because RTD is special
-setuptools==40.8.0