diff --git a/_multibuild b/_multibuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fcc7b97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_multibuild
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+<multibuild>
+  <package>test</package>
+</multibuild>
diff --git a/python-wheel.changes b/python-wheel.changes
index 1e8dde7..81e673e 100644
--- a/python-wheel.changes
+++ b/python-wheel.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jun 17 10:35:46 UTC 2019 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
+
+- Switch to mulitbuild to avoid dep on pytest by default
+  (As pytest needs wheel to build itself)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jun 14 08:59:02 UTC 2019 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-wheel.spec b/python-wheel.spec
index 169322f..f9b6877 100644
--- a/python-wheel.spec
+++ b/python-wheel.spec
@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@
 
 
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python-%{**} python3-%{**}}
+%global flavor @BUILD_FLAVOR@%{nil}
+%if "%{flavor}" == "test"
+%define psuffix -test
+%bcond_without test
+%else
+%define psuffix %{nil}
+%bcond_with test
+%endif
 Name:           python-wheel
 Version:        0.33.4
 Release:        0
@@ -25,7 +33,6 @@ License:        MIT
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 URL:            https://github.com/pypa/wheel
 Source:         https://github.com/pypa/wheel/archive/%{version}.tar.gz#/wheel-%{version}.tar.gz
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest >= 3.0.0}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
@@ -33,6 +40,10 @@ Requires:       python-setuptools
 Requires(post): update-alternatives
 Requires(postun): update-alternatives
 BuildArch:      noarch
+%if %{with test}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest >= 3.0.0}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module wheel >= %{version}}
+%endif
 %python_subpackages
 
 %description
@@ -55,15 +66,20 @@ sed -i '/addopts = /d' setup.cfg
 %python_build
 
 %install
+%if !%{with test}
 %python_install
 %python_clone -a %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/wheel
 %python_expand %fdupes %{buildroot}%{$python_sitelib}
+%endif
 
 %check
+%if %{with test}
 export LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
 export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
 %pytest
+%endif
 
+%if !%{with test}
 %post
 %python_install_alternative wheel
 
@@ -76,5 +92,6 @@ export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
 %python_alternative %{_bindir}/wheel
 %{python_sitelib}/wheel-%{version}-py%{python_version}.egg-info
 %{python_sitelib}/wheel/
+%endif
 
 %changelog