diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index ec58fdbf..51ab81e0 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -5,4 +5,5 @@ recursive-include benchmarks/modules *
 recursive-include benchmarks/spack *.yaml
 recursive-include benchmarks/spack/repo *
 recursive-include post-processing *
+prune docs
 prune __pycache__