diff --git a/roles/taskotron/taskotron-client/tasks/main.yml b/roles/taskotron/taskotron-client/tasks/main.yml
index ca97d01ef0..c410851003 100644
--- a/roles/taskotron/taskotron-client/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/taskotron/taskotron-client/tasks/main.yml
@@ -19,13 +19,14 @@
     - selinux-policy-devel
   when: deployment_type in ['dev', 'stg', 'prod']
 
-- name: ensure packages required for taskotron tasks are installed
-  dnf: name={{ item }} state=present
-  with_items:
-    - python-solv
-    - python-librepo
-    - rpmlint
-  when: ansible_cmdline.ostree is not defined
+# see what happens when we don't have these
+#- name: ensure packages required for taskotron tasks are installed
+#  dnf: name={{ item }} state=present
+#  with_items:
+#    - python-solv
+#    - python-librepo
+#    - rpmlint
+#  when: ansible_cmdline.ostree is not defined
 
 - name: generate taskotron.yaml config file
   template: src={{ item }} dest=/etc/taskotron/taskotron.yaml owner=root group=root mode=0644