Tries to install my code, even though I did not ask for it

[Kwpolska]

Builds for projects pkgbuilder and cheqlist fail. ReadTheDocs is attempting to do this:

python /home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/pkgbuilder/envs/stable/bin/pip install --exists-action=w -r/home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/pkgbuilder/checkouts/stable/requirements.txt

However, I do not have the “use virtualenv” option checked, and I did not set any requirements path. I do not use autodoc, and therefore do not need this.

[gregmuellegger]

Here is the line that gets fancy when no requirements.txt file is specified explicitly: https://github.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org/blob/master/readthedocs/projects/tasks.py#L283

It is in line with our goals to reduce the number of projects that depend on a virtualenv or any other installation prior to building the docs, so would love to resolve this ticket soon. However we are deep in the work for creating a build system that will be configured with a readthedocs.yml file in the repository. Until then we want to avoid adding more configuration options in the admin.

Unfortunatelly too many projects depend on the auto-installed requirements that you experienced to be able to turn it off right now. We'll do the switch with the new build system. Stay tuned.

[gregmuellegger]

Blocked until rtd-build is in production.

[ericholscher]

This should be fixed, I believe. The install project option will trigger it.