diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 63e178ef7..6325f1f62 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 # Any lines with "# pip-only" at the end will be processed by
 # scripts/convert-requirements-to-conda-yml.py as though it can only be found
 # on pip.
+# Sometimes conda-forge does not install the latest available version,
+# pip-only can be a workaround for that.
 
 virtualenv>=12.0.1
 pytest
@@ -18,7 +20,7 @@ pypiwin32; sys_platform == 'win32'  # pip-only
 
 # 60.7.0 exception because of https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/6564
 setuptools>=8.0,!=60.7.0
-PyInstaller>=4.10
+PyInstaller>=4.10  # pip-only
 setuptools_scm>=6.4.0
 requests
 coverage