Problem

Specifically for my use-case, I'm trying to removesetuptools from my application dependencies (so I can usepip-tools withpip install --no-deps, as perpip's recommendation)

Suggested solution

Removesetuptools requirement from install_requires

Alternative solutions

For my use, usepip-tools --allow-unsafe, orpip install without--no-deps, but this doesn't solve the underlying issue

Additional context

Setuptools is only used in thegoogle-api-core package during build-time (as thelegacy build backend), and not during runtime (arepository search confirms this)

Related issues:

• Setuptools as dependency is problematic w/ pip-tools google-auth-library-python#595 (resolved bychore: drop 'setuptools' dependency google-auth-library-python#913)
• setuptools 60.0.0 breaking change #325