diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 8dc0e2c..cf4e3f4 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@ graft setupext
 
 graft scripts
 
+# Load main dir but exclude things we don't want in the distro
 graft IPython
 prune IPython/deathrow
+prune IPython/frontend/html/notebook/static/mathjax
 
 include IPython/.git_commit_info.ini
 
@@ -20,6 +22,7 @@ prune docs/attic
 prune docs/build
 prune docs/gh-pages
 
+
 global-exclude *~
 global-exclude *.flc
 global-exclude *.pyc