cyclic dependency: lightning and lightning-api-access

[cdeepali]

Bug description

There is a cyclic dependency between lightning and lightning-api-access packages:

lightning requires lightning-api-access
and
lightning-api-access requires lightning

$ pip show lightning-api-access
Name: lightning-api-access
Version: 0.0.1
Summary: ⚡ API Access UI ⚡
Home-page: https://github.com/Lightning-AI/LAI-API-Access-UI-Component
Author: Lightning et al.
Author-email: [email protected]
License:
Location: /opt/conda/lib/python3.9/site-packages
Requires: lightning
Required-by: lightning


$ pip show lightning
Name: lightning
Version: 1.8.3
Summary: Use Lightning Apps to build everything from production-ready, multi-cloud ML systems to simple research demos.
Home-page: https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lightning
Author: Lightning AI et al.
Author-email: [email protected]
License: Apache-2.0
Location: /opt/conda/lib/python3.9/site-packages
Requires: arrow, beautifulsoup4, click, croniter, deepdiff, fsspec, fsspec, inquirer, lightning-api-access, lightning-cloud, lightning-utilities, numpy, packaging, packaging, psutil, PyYAML, starsessions, tensorboardX, torch, torchmetrics, tqdm, traitlets, typing-extensions
Required-by: lightning-api-access

cc @tchaton

[awaelchli]

@tchaton @hhsecond It looks like we added a component repo as a base requirement in Lightning. This shouldn't be there since it's optional and not required to run apps. Let's remove it?

cc @Borda

[Borda]

@tchaton @hhsecond It looks like we added a component repo as a base requirement in Lightning. This shouldn't be there since it's optional and not required to run apps. Let's remove it?

yeah, that was exactly what I was hunting in #15776