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What would it take to have an environment-aware target that can consume a python sdist like a requirement and produce a wheel for it? Right now `python_distribution` doesn't support environments, and it treats 3rd party requirements as inputs to generating `install_requires=` . What I'm thinking of is a putative `python__re_distribution` target that could build an sdist into a wheel in the given environment.

From <https://pantsbuild.slack.com/archives/C046T6T9U/p1694120830744529> <@U05MHCJCMT9>

So the code that turns a python distribution into a built package is here <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/blob/8edb8e94d573b86de0e11563f9f1886342536e48/src/python/pants/backend/python/goals/package_dists.py#L18>

We'd need to do something similar to that but add environment-awareness, and probably define the target such that it doesn't allow first-party sources, and only rebuilds `python_requirement` targets