Originally reported by: ngrilly (Bitbucket: ngrilly, GitHub: ngrilly)

I use setup_requires in one of my projects, and was a bit surprised to find the eggs listed in setup_requires added to my working directory after having run python setup.py sdist.

This behavior is clearly documented here but is still quite unexpected.

Is there a reason for this or is it something that can changed?

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/80