diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5cb2d3ade13e89f12378cee318f644b0e8b87fc8..892905b3f4024c3e82a2d48edccb9c8fd0d87ab7 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,69 +1,444 @@
-absl-py==0.11.0
+## this is basically the "pip list --format=freeze" output from a fully loaded venv_juwels ##
+
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+backports.tempfile==1.0
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-chardet==4.0.0
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