diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yaml b/.github/workflows/tests.yaml
index afbce896a..25d70849f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yaml
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install requirements
       run: |
         pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
+        pip install collective.checkdocs==0.2
         pip install ".[dev]" pre-commit
     - name: Check README
       run: python setup.py checkdocs
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8c125efc1..284868d51 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=48", "wheel", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.3.1"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=48", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.3.1", "setuptools_scm_git_archive==1.1"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [tool.setuptools_scm]
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 97b465cd2..460316e8c 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -121,7 +121,6 @@ webdhfs_kerberos = requests-kerberos==0.14.0
 terraform = tpi[ssh]>=2.1.0
 tests =
     %(terraform)s
-    wheel==0.37.1
     dvc_ssh==0.0.1a0
     # Test requirements
     pytest==7.1.1
@@ -135,9 +134,6 @@ tests =
     mock==4.0.3
     pytest-timeout==2.1.0
     filelock==3.6.0
-    dvclive[image]==0.6.0
-    collective.checkdocs==0.2
-    pydocstyle==6.1.1
     # pylint requirements
     pylint==2.12.2
     # we use this to suppress pytest-related false positives in our tests.
@@ -147,11 +143,12 @@ tests =
     pylint-plugin-utils==0.7
     # type-checking
     mypy==0.942
-    types-requests==2.27.15
-    types-tabulate==0.8.6
-    types-toml==0.10.4
+    types-requests>=2.27.15
+    types-tabulate>=0.8.6
+    types-toml>=0.10.4
     # optional dependencies
     pywin32>=225; sys_platform == 'win32'
+    dvclive[image]==0.6.0
 
 [options.packages.find]
 exclude =
diff --git a/tests/func/test_live.py b/tests/func/test_live.py
index e5aca8859..b3186ba97 100644
--- a/tests/func/test_live.py
+++ b/tests/func/test_live.py
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ from funcy import first
 from dvc import stage as stage_module
 from dvc.render.match import get_files
 
+pytest.importorskip("dvclive", reason="no dvclive")
+
+
 LIVE_SCRIPT = dedent(
     """
         from dvclive import Live
@@ -60,11 +63,6 @@ LIVE_CHECKPOINT_SCRIPT = dedent(
 
 @pytest.fixture
 def live_stage(tmp_dir, scm, dvc, mocker):
-    try:
-        import dvclive  # noqa, pylint:disable=unused-import
-    except ImportError:
-        pytest.skip("no dvclive")
-
     mocker.patch("dvc.stage.run.Monitor.AWAIT", 0.01)
 
     def make(
@@ -156,11 +154,6 @@ def test_live_html(tmp_dir, dvc, live_stage, html):
 
 @pytest.fixture
 def live_checkpoint_stage(tmp_dir, scm, dvc, mocker):
-    try:
-        import dvclive  # noqa, pylint:disable=unused-import
-    except ImportError:
-        pytest.skip("no dvclive")
-
     mocker.patch("dvc.stage.run.Monitor.AWAIT", 0.01)
 
     def make(live=None, live_no_cache=None):