diff --git a/files/debs/general b/files/debs/general
index 1460526..80e81f5 100644
--- a/files/debs/general
+++ b/files/debs/general
@@ -20,8 +20,10 @@
 python-gdbm # needed for testr
 bc
 libyaml-dev
-libffi-dev
+libffi-dev # for pyOpenSSL
 libssl-dev # for pyOpenSSL
+libxml2-dev  # lxml
+libxslt1-dev  # lxml
 gettext  # used for compiling message catalogs
 openjdk-7-jre-headless  # NOPRIME
 pkg-config
diff --git a/files/debs/keystone b/files/debs/keystone
index 70a5649..f5816b5 100644
--- a/files/debs/keystone
+++ b/files/debs/keystone
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-python-lxml
 sqlite3
 python-mysqldb
 python-mysql.connector
diff --git a/files/debs/n-novnc b/files/debs/n-novnc
deleted file mode 100644
index c8722b9..0000000
--- a/files/debs/n-novnc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-python-numpy
diff --git a/files/debs/nova b/files/debs/nova
index 346b8b3..d1678a7 100644
--- a/files/debs/nova
+++ b/files/debs/nova
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@
 mysql-server # NOPRIME
 python-mysqldb
 python-mysql.connector
-python-lxml # needed for glance which is needed for nova --- this shouldn't be here
+libxml2-dev # needed for building lxml
+libxslt1-dev
 gawk
 iptables
 ebtables
@@ -25,7 +26,3 @@
 genisoimage # required for config_drive
 rabbitmq-server # NOPRIME
 socat # used by ajaxterm
-python-libvirt # NOPRIME
-python-libxml2
-python-numpy # used by websockify for spice console
-python-m2crypto