> So that means that the way to game this would be to create a wrapper project (e.g. called "external_deps") for all of my dependencies, and then have my actual

> So that means that the way to game this would be to create a wrapper project (e.g. called "external_deps") for all of my dependencies, and then have my actual project depend on that one No, you can't resort to chicanery to manipulate your metric. In this case, the libraries you want to use become transitive dependencies, but if your code uses those transitive dependencies, then your project still depends on them.