diff --git a/bootstrap.sh b/bootstrap.sh
index 58b9d89b..d32800e7 100755
--- a/bootstrap.sh
+++ b/bootstrap.sh
@@ -13,12 +13,6 @@ if [ -d ".git" ]; then
     git submodule update
 fi
 
-if [ -d "deps" ]; then
-    # We have a collection of dependencies in our source package. We might as well use it instead
-    # of downloading it from PyPI.
-    PIPARGS="--no-index --find-links=deps"
-fi
-
 if [ ! -d "env" ]; then
     echo "No virtualenv. Creating one"
     # We need a "system-site-packages" env to have PyQt, but we also need to ensure a local pip
@@ -37,10 +31,10 @@ source env/bin/activate
 
 echo "Installing pip requirements"
 if [ "$(uname)" == "Darwin" ]; then
-    ./env/bin/pip install $PIPARGS -r requirements-osx.txt
+    ./env/bin/pip install -r requirements-osx.txt
 else
     ./env/bin/python -c "import PyQt5" >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "PyQt 5.4+ required. Install it and try again. Aborting"; exit 1; }
-    ./env/bin/pip install $PIPARGS -r requirements.txt
+    ./env/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt
 fi
 
 echo "Bootstrapping complete! You can now configure, build and run dupeGuru with:"
diff --git a/download_deps.sh b/download_deps.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index f0e9232a..00000000
--- a/download_deps.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-# The goal here is to have a folder with all packages needed as dependencies by the project. The
-# obvious solution is "pip install --download deps -r requirements.txt", but this thing doesn't
-# follow sub-dependencies. The 2nd obvious solution would be to use the result of a `pip freeze`
-# instead of requirements.txt, but this command outputs everything on the system, which isn't cool.
-# So, what about "pip freeze -l"? That would work, unless one of the dependencies is installed
-# system-wide (Sphinx often is). We can't disable system site packages because we need PyQt, which
-# is always installed globally.
-
-# So, what we do here is that we create a brand new venv just for dependencies download, which
-# we'll pip freeze.
-
-rm -rf deps
-rm -rf depsenv
-mkdir deps
-
-python3 -m venv depsenv
-source depsenv/bin/activate
-python get-pip.py
-pip install -r requirements.txt
-pip freeze -l > deps/requirements.freeze
-pip install --download=deps -r deps/requirements.freeze setuptools pip
-deactivate
-rm -rf depsenv
diff --git a/package.py b/package.py
index 94712ce9..50dc4dfe 100644
--- a/package.py
+++ b/package.py
@@ -99,16 +99,11 @@ def package_arch():
     filereplace(op.join('pkg', 'arch', 'dupeguru.desktop'), op.join(srcpath, 'dupeguru.desktop'), **debopts)
 
 def package_source_tgz():
-    if not op.exists('deps'):
-        print("Downloading PyPI dependencies")
-        print_and_do('./download_deps.sh')
     print("Creating git archive")
     app_version = get_module_version('core')
     name = 'dupeguru-src-{}.tar'.format(app_version)
     dest = op.join('build', name)
     print_and_do('git archive -o {} HEAD'.format(dest))
-    print("Adding dependencies and wrapping up")
-    print_and_do('tar -rf {} deps'.format(dest))
     print_and_do('gzip {}'.format(dest))
 
 def main():