the author just decided to note it in a readme file instead to avoid the need to clone his repository manually Isn't it the other way round? Because th

the author just decided to note it in a readme file instead to avoid the need to clone his repository manually Isn't it the other way round? Because the dependency is noted in the readme, one has to clone his repo manually? If it was in the setup.py, one could just run setup.py and everything would be set up.