I am new to HA (and Python). I just finished up a new cloud polling thermostat integration (NV Energy The Simple Thermostat) and am looking to add it to HACS. The HACS docs say if my integration uses other Python libraries I need to add a file for my integration to wheels-custom-integrations.
My external python libraries used are cryptography and response (for HTTP). I think both of these libraries are include with the base HA install? Thus, do I need to still need to create an entry in wheels-custom-integrations?
The wheels thingy is actually owned by HA and is not specific to HACS (besides HACS requiring that the custom_component being submitted there)
I think it is meant to centralize the requirement by custom components.
As for the OP question, I think you don’t have a choice as soon as you have a requirement in your manifest, or HACS checks will fail.
It will likely be a no-op if the requirement is already in wheels, but I don’t think HACS cares…