No, although I see where that confusion comes from.

For a dummy toolchain for which the version is also `dummy`, no (build) dependencies are loaded.
But if you use an empty version, you make sure that the dependencies are loaded:

```python
toolchain = {'name': 'dummy', 'version': ''}
```

This is well documented (hah!): https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild/wiki/Easyconfig-files#toolchain ;-)