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Useless dependency on wheel #6297

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Inspecting the tensorboard wheel reveals that it depends on the wheel package:

$ bsdtar -xOf tensorboard-2.12.1-py3-none-any.whl tensorboard-2.12.1.dist-info/METADATA | grep wheel
Requires-Dist: wheel (>=0.26)

There seems to be no reason for this. I checked the source code, and I couldn't find any runtime usages of wheel. wheel doesn't even have an API, so it seems unlikely to be needed.

I would suggest removing it so that Tensorboard doesn't pull unnecessary packages into the environment.

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