Hello!
I'm working with a Docker based microservice that consumes pubsub messages and have run into an issue. In order to reduce the risk of malicious activity in our pods we have removedsetuptools andpip amongst other things from the Dockerimage. This does however create a problem when using packages that depend on thegoogle.core_api since it has a dependency onpkg_resources. At the moment this forces us to havesetuptools installed in the pods running google services dependent on the core api.

Would it be possible to remove the few dependencies onpkg_resources in the core-api?

Thanks in advance!