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Remove unused setuptools runtime dependency #338
Description
Problem
Specifically for my use-case, I'm trying to remove setuptools from my application dependencies (so I can use pip-tools with pip install --no-deps, as per pip's recommendation)
Suggested solution
Remove setuptools requirement from install_requires
Alternative solutions
For my use, use pip-tools --allow-unsafe, or pip install without --no-deps, but this doesn't solve the underlying issue
Additional context
Setuptools is only used in the google-api-core package during build-time (as the legacy build backend), and not during runtime (a repository search confirms this)
Related issues:
Reacted by Bu Sun Kim
Activity
fix(deps): remove setuptools from dependencies
busunkim96 commentedon Feb 2, 2022
Thanks @EpicWink, that sounds reasonable. I opened #339 to remove
setuptoolsfrominstall_requires.fix(deps): remove setuptools from dependencies (#339)
feat: merge main branch into v1 (#438)