diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c966c4a9e5cbc36356d8901e05238bc5355496f0..03ea23b57416cd650c6ff38185913dd49571446c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ setup(name="sumpy",
           "pytools>=2013.3",
           "pytest>=2.3",
 
-          "sympy>=0.7.2",
+          # FIXME leave out for now
+          # https://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=3874
+          #"sympy>=0.7.2",
           ],