Pip install --dry-run shouldn't download full wheels when metadata file available #12603
Description
Description
When running pip install --dry-run {package} pip downloads the metadata file and then the full wheel
Expected behavior
Dry run installs don't need to download the full wheels
pip version
24.0
Python version
3.11
OS
Linux
How to Reproduce
pip install --dry-run kaleido==0.2.1
Output
$ pip install --dry-run kaleido==0.2.1
Collecting kaleido==0.2.1
Downloading kaleido-0.2.1-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl.metadata (15 kB)
Downloading kaleido-0.2.1-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (79.9 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 79.9/79.9 MB 34.6 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Would install kaleido-0.2.1
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