Create wheel without building dependencies

I have a sample project:

test/
    - __init__.py
    - module.py
    - setup.py

setup.py is just

from setuptools import setup

setup(name='test', install_requires=['numpy'])

Then when I call pip wheel ., it automatically makes a wheel for numpy. Can I make it not do that? It’s my understanding that when you install a wheel, it will automatically go download and install any missing dependencies. Is the numpy wheel needed for making my test wheel?

Answer

That’s just the way that pip rolls, but if you wheely want to omit the numpy build then you can turn around and give this command a spin:

pip wheel --no-deps .

Note: if the correct numpy wheel was already existing, it would be skipped anyway. No need to reinvent the thing…