How do we stop bringing in dev requirements?

[watfordgnf]

I'm running cx_freeze on a venv'd project with both dev and runtime requirements installed. I've attempted to narrow the set required via the use of the packages option, but that does not seem to work.

import sys
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable

build_exe_options = {
    "path": sys.path + [ "src" ],
    "packages": [ "lxml", "numpy", "docx", "X" ],
    "excludes": [ "zmq" ], # fails without this line
    "include_files": [
        ( "src/X/lib/a-x64.dll", "a-x64.dll"),
        ( "src/X/lib/a.dll", "a.dll"),
    ]
}

setup(  name = "X",
        version = "1.0.0",
        description = "X",
        options = {"build_exe": build_exe_options},
        executables = [Executable("src/X/__main__.py", target_name="X.exe")])

This results in quite a few unrelated packages being brought in, and I know these are unnecessary as pip-compile provided for me the minimum set of deps (the three listed in packages, plus our package).

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copying C:\X\venv\lib\site-packages\lxml\builder.cp38-win_amd64.pyd -> build\exe.win-amd64-3.8\lib\lxml\builder.cp38-win_amd64.pyd
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[marcelotduarte]

includes is used to include modules that are not detected (of course detected modules can be listed too).
packages do the same for packages (collection of modules).
excludes is to exclude modules or packages to the final build, but if you exclude a necessary package you have runtime errors.