diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7b539c244..c967aa1f7 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -259,8 +259,7 @@ quickstart: $(KUSTOMIZE) manifests #EXHELP Generate the installation release man
 
 ##@ Docs
 
-VENVDIR          := $(abspath docs/.venv)
-REQUIREMENTS_TXT := docs/requirements.txt
+VENVDIR := $(abspath docs/.venv)
 
 .PHONY: build-docs
 build-docs: venv
diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 3bd0138e3..000000000
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-Babel==2.14.0
-beautifulsoup4==4.12.3
-certifi==2024.2.2
-charset-normalizer==3.3.2
-click==8.1.7
-colorama==0.4.6
-cssselect==1.2.0
-ghp-import==2.1.0
-idna==3.7
-Jinja2==3.1.3
-lxml==5.2.1
-Markdown==3.6
-markdown2==2.4.13
-MarkupSafe==2.1.5
-mergedeep==1.3.4
-mkdocs==1.6.0
-mkdocs-material==9.5.20
-mkdocs-material-extensions==1.3.1
-packaging==24.0
-paginate==0.5.6
-pathspec==0.12.1
-platformdirs==4.2.1
-Pygments==2.17.2
-pymdown-extensions==10.8.1
-pyquery==2.0.0
-python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
-PyYAML==6.0.1
-pyyaml_env_tag==0.1
-readtime==3.0.0
-regex==2024.4.28
-requests==2.31.0
-six==1.16.0
-soupsieve==2.5
-urllib3==2.2.1
-watchdog==4.0.0
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0bdf934eb..3bd0138e3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1,35 @@
+Babel==2.14.0
+beautifulsoup4==4.12.3
+certifi==2024.2.2
+charset-normalizer==3.3.2
+click==8.1.7
+colorama==0.4.6
+cssselect==1.2.0
+ghp-import==2.1.0
+idna==3.7
+Jinja2==3.1.3
+lxml==5.2.1
+Markdown==3.6
+markdown2==2.4.13
+MarkupSafe==2.1.5
+mergedeep==1.3.4
+mkdocs==1.6.0
 mkdocs-material==9.5.20
+mkdocs-material-extensions==1.3.1
+packaging==24.0
+paginate==0.5.6
+pathspec==0.12.1
+platformdirs==4.2.1
+Pygments==2.17.2
+pymdown-extensions==10.8.1
+pyquery==2.0.0
+python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
+PyYAML==6.0.1
+pyyaml_env_tag==0.1
+readtime==3.0.0
+regex==2024.4.28
+requests==2.31.0
+six==1.16.0
+soupsieve==2.5
+urllib3==2.2.1
+watchdog==4.0.0