diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/cryptography/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/cryptography/default.nix
index 199cfd86517f..4815bfe90559 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/cryptography/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/cryptography/default.nix
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@
 , setuptools-rust
 , openssl
 , Security
-, packaging
-, six
 , isPyPy
 , cffi
 , pkg-config
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/matplotlib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/matplotlib/default.nix
index ddc597b90b73..d71b9cce7af9 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/matplotlib/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/matplotlib/default.nix
@@ -9,14 +9,11 @@
 # build-system
 , pkg-config
 , pybind11
-, setuptools
 , setuptools-scm
 
 # native libraries
 , ffmpeg-headless
-, fontconfig
 , freetype
-, imagemagick
 , qhull
 
 # propagates
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/numpy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/numpy/default.nix
index d18a93e1509c..401a1120527a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/numpy/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/numpy/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 { lib
 , fetchPypi
-, fetchpatch
 , python
 , buildPythonPackage
 , gfortran
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pandas/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pandas/default.nix
index b852a7f82c03..68d925cc2a9f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pandas/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pandas/default.nix
@@ -8,11 +8,6 @@
 , numpy
 , python-dateutil
 , pytz
-, scipy
-, sqlalchemy
-, tables
-, xlrd
-, xlwt
 # Test inputs
 , glibcLocales
 , hypothesis