diff --git a/docs/getting_started.rst b/docs/getting_started.rst
index 442732be..d90e1fe8 100644
--- a/docs/getting_started.rst
+++ b/docs/getting_started.rst
@@ -23,13 +23,14 @@ At this time, pelican is dependent of the following python packages:
 
 * feedgenerator, to generate the ATOM feeds.
 * jinja2, for templating support.
-* pygments, to have syntactic colorization
-* docutils and Markdown
 
 If you're not using python 2.7, you will also need `argparse`.
 
-All those dependencies will be processed automatically if you install pelican
-using setuptools/distribute or pip.
+Optionally:
+
+* docutils, for reST support
+* pygments, to have syntactic colorization with resT input
+* Markdown, for Markdown as an input format
 
 Writing articles using pelican
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