Out of curiosity, why wheel is needed now?

It is an optional requisite, the pip install -r was complaing(warning only) about using a legacy typing because wheel was not installed in the pip.

It's really strange to have wheel as a dependency of Autosubmit. But I guess that should be OK in this case as requirements.txt is not used when you do a pip install -e ..

typing is also not normally listed as dependency, @dbeltran , @mcastril . From the PyPI typing project description:

This is a backport of the standard library typing module to Python versions older than 3.5. (See note below for newer versions.)

That's probably legacy from before AS moving past Python 3.5.

I've created this issue to track this: #982

The message only was shown in the Lumi VM as far I remember. Also, it was not crashing the installation.

Perhaps it is due to it being an venv of a very, very barebones python 3.9