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Add guidance on core dependencies
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jaraco authored Jul 28, 2024
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You can install the latest version of ``setuptools`` using :pypi:`pip`::

pip install --upgrade setuptools
pip install --upgrade setuptools[core]

Most of the times, however, you don't have to...

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This section declares what are your build system dependencies, and which
library will be used to actually do the packaging.

.. note::

Package maintainers might be tempted to use ``setuptools[core]`` as the
requirement, given the guidance above. Avoid doing so, as the extra
is currently considered an internal implementation detail and is likely
to go away in the future and the Setuptools team will not support
compatibility for problems arising from packages published with this
extra declared. Vendored packages will satisfy the dependencies in
the most common isolated build scenarios.

.. note::

Historically this documentation has unnecessarily listed ``wheel``
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