diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/awesome/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/awesome/default.nix
index 3b655b55c9c0..3541743057cc 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/awesome/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/awesome/default.nix
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
 , xlibs, libstartup_notification, libxdg_basedir, libpthreadstubs
 , xcb-util-cursor, makeWrapper, pango, gobjectIntrospection, unclutter
 , compton, procps, iproute, coreutils, curl, alsaUtils, findutils, xterm
-, which, dbus, nettools, git, asciidoc, doxygen, xmlto, docbook_xml_dtd_45
-, docbook_xsl }:
+, which, dbus, nettools, git, asciidoc, doxygen
+#, xmlto, docbook_xml_dtd_45 , docbook_xsl
+}:
 
 let
   version = "3.5.6";
@@ -54,10 +55,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     xlibs.xcbutilkeysyms
     xlibs.xcbutilrenderutil
     xlibs.xcbutilwm
-    xmlto docbook_xml_dtd_45 docbook_xsl
+    #xmlto docbook_xml_dtd_45 docbook_xsl
   ];
 
-  cmakeFlags = "-DGENERATE_MANPAGES=ON";
+  #cmakeFlags = "-DGENERATE_MANPAGES=ON";
 
   LD_LIBRARY_PATH = "${cairo}/lib:${pango}/lib:${gobjectIntrospection}/lib";
   GI_TYPELIB_PATH = "${pango}/lib/girepository-1.0";