[Distutils] why would you ever need to specify setuptools as a dependency?

[Hanno Schlichting]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
> Why?  Nobody will check / enforce / understand what 'install_requires'
> even means except setuptools / distribute.

To quote Toshio Kuratomi:
> It's nice for people creating system packages when you specify all of the
> packages that your runtime depends on in setup.py.

So apparently there are others who read and value this information.

Hanno