diff --git a/Makefile.local b/Makefile.local
--- a/Makefile.local
+++ b/Makefile.local
@@ -7,10 +7,26 @@
 	@echo Please be patient.
 	tox -vv -r -e sphinx-dev
 
+
+# inline *build* dependencies to allow installing requirements-swh-dev.txt without build
+# isolation
+BUILD_DEPS :=
+
+# swh.perfecthash
+BUILD_DEPS += cffi
+
+# swh.search
+BUILD_DEPS += tree-sitter
+
+# swh.loader.bzr>breezy
+BUILD_DEPS += configobj
+
+# swh.docs
+BUILD_DEPS += pifpaf
+
 pip-install-swh-dev:
+	python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools setuptools-scm
+	python3 -m pip install --upgrade $(BUILD_DEPS)
+
+	python3 -m pip install -r requirements-swh-dev.txt --no-build-isolation
 	python3 -m pip install .
-	python3 -m pip install pifpaf
-	sed 's/#.*$$//;/^$$/d' requirements-swh-dev.txt | \
-	while IFS= read -r package; do \
-	  python3 -m pip install $$package ; \
-	done
diff --git a/requirements-swh-dev.txt b/requirements-swh-dev.txt
--- a/requirements-swh-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-swh-dev.txt
@@ -1,35 +1,35 @@
 # Add here internal Software Heritage dependencies, one per line.
-# Dependencies need to be ordered in a way that ensure only
-# development versions will be used (not the release ones hosted on PyPI).
 #
-# This is NOT in alphabetical order
+# You can keep this list sorted alphabetically, the pip dependency resolver can sort
+# this out.
 
-../swh-core[http,db,logging]
 ../swh-auth[django]
-../swh-model
-../swh-journal
+../swh-core[http,db,logging]
 ../swh-counters
-../swh-objstorage[testing]
-../swh-storage
-../swh-objstorage-replayer
-../swh-scheduler[simulator]
+../swh-dataset
 ../swh-deposit[server]
+../swh-fuse
 ../swh-graph
 ../swh-icinga-plugins
 ../swh-indexer
+../swh-journal
 ../swh-lister
-../swh-loader-core
 ../swh-loader-bzr
+../swh-loader-core
+../swh-loader-cvs
 ../swh-loader-git
 ../swh-loader-mercurial
 ../swh-loader-metadata
 ../swh-loader-svn
-../swh-loader-cvs
+../swh-model
+../swh-objstorage-replayer
+../swh-objstorage[testing]
 ../swh-perfecthash
+../swh-scanner
+../swh-scheduler[simulator]
 ../swh-scrubber
 ../swh-search
+../swh-storage
 ../swh-vault
 ../swh-web
 ../swh-web-client
-../swh-scanner
-../swh-fuse