> I ask because from what I understand from Google's monorepo, it should be easy for engineers to take direct dependencies on whatever they want. Not correct.

> I ask because from what I understand from Google's monorepo, it should be easy for engineers to take direct dependencies on whatever they want. Not correct. The dependency system supports visibility restrictions - you can take direct dependencies to anything only if you're in your own experimental tree. Otherwise package authors can control access. You can see that even in the Bazel: https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/visibility.html https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/visibility.html (google employee)