Possible undeclared dependency on setuptools?

[danricbede]

I've transferred the cookie cutter project over to Poetry from Setuptools and stripped it back to basically a Hello World by removing local dependencies on scikit, etc.

When I run a dbx command I'm a getting a "No module found named: pkg_resources", which itself is used as part of Setuptools. I have to explicitly add setuptools as a dev group requirement to get dbx running. My suspicion is that in the cookiecutter project, mlflow is added as a local dependency in setup.py, which itself depends on gunicorn, which depends on setuptools, thus satisfying the dependency.

Curious on what the stance is here - is it a genuine undecalred dependency, an assumption that because mlflow is on the cluster it should be added as a local dependency, or something else?

Thanks in advance.

pyproject.toml.txt

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