# How specify a lib dependency

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/how-specify-a-lib-dependency/44259>\
**Category:** Python Help\
**Tags:** help, packaging-help\
**Created:** [January 27, 2024, 12:50am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/how-specify-a-lib-dependency/44259 "2024-01-27T00:50:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![kknechtel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47c2d/32.png) [@kknechtel](https://discuss.python.org/u/kknechtel)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 5:44am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/how-specify-a-lib-dependency/44259/25 "2024-01-30T05:44:56Z")

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> [@EdmundsEcho](#):
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> Perhaps useful to include a [dependencies.local] or the like in the pyproject.toml to enable a “local/private distribution”? (a rhetorical question that I will track when reading the docs and proposals over time).

This is part of a [larger discussion](https://discuss.python.org/t/projects-that-arent-meant-to-generate-a-wheel-and-pyproject-toml/29684) that has proven very complex and difficult so far.

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