diff --git a/src/py/reactpy/pyproject.toml b/src/py/reactpy/pyproject.toml
index 7f4139fe2..e5a2559b7 100644
--- a/src/py/reactpy/pyproject.toml
+++ b/src/py/reactpy/pyproject.toml
@@ -96,7 +96,6 @@ dependencies = [
   "types-click",
   "types-tornado",
   "types-flask",
-  "pkg_resources; sys_platform != 'win32'",
   "types-requests",
 ]