diff --git a/src/azure-cli-core/setup.py b/src/azure-cli-core/setup.py
index 75aa42c5daa..f45c67a0208 100644
--- a/src/azure-cli-core/setup.py
+++ b/src/azure-cli-core/setup.py
@@ -57,16 +57,13 @@
     'packaging>=20.9,<22.0',
     'paramiko>=2.0.8,<3.0.0',
     'pkginfo>=1.5.0.1',
+    # psutil can't install on cygwin: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/issues/9399
+    'psutil~=5.9; sys_platform != "cygwin"',
     'PyJWT>=2.1.0',
     'pyopenssl>=17.1.0',  # https://github.com/pyca/pyopenssl/pull/612
     'requests[socks]'
 ]
 
-# dependencies for specific OSes
-if not sys.platform.startswith('cygwin'):
-    DEPENDENCIES.append('psutil~=5.9')
-
-
 with open('README.rst', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
     README = f.read()
 
diff --git a/src/azure-cli/setup.py b/src/azure-cli/setup.py
index b2df52bae2d..33b5ff4e145 100644
--- a/src/azure-cli/setup.py
+++ b/src/azure-cli/setup.py
@@ -139,6 +139,8 @@
     'azure-synapse-spark~=0.2.0',
     'chardet~=3.0.4',
     'colorama~=0.4.4',
+    # On Linux, the distribution (Ubuntu, Debian, etc) and version are checked for `az feedback`
+    'distro; sys_platform == "linux"',
     'fabric~=2.4',
     'javaproperties~=0.5.1',
     'jsondiff~=1.3.0',
@@ -154,10 +156,6 @@
     'xmltodict~=0.12'
 ]
 
-# On Linux, the distribution (Ubuntu, Debian, etc) and version are checked
-if sys.platform == 'linux':
-    DEPENDENCIES.append('distro')
-
 with open('README.rst', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
     README = f.read()