it looks like when you say

celery[sqs]

, that adds a dep on `kombu[sqs]`: https://github.com/celery/celery/blob/master/requirements/extras/sqs.txt (also see the

setup.py

file in that repo to see how I figured that out) Then

kombu[sqs]

explains the pycurl dep: https://github.com/celery/kombu/blob/master/requirements/extras/sqs.txt But yeah, your'e right that I don't get why

pycurl

has an

sqs

extra...