--- pyproject.toml
+++ pyproject.toml
@@ -120,13 +120,10 @@
 build-backend = 'mesonpy'
 requires = [
     'meson-python>=0.15',
-    'wheel',
-    'setuptools>=67',
     'packaging>=21',
     'Cython>=3.0.4',
     'pythran',
     'lazy_loader>=0.3',
-    'numpy>=2.0.0rc1',
 ]

 [tool.spin]