# How to privatize dependencies in Swift Package Manager?

**URL:** <https://forums.swift.org/t/how-to-privatize-dependencies-in-swift-package-manager/33523>\
**Category:** Using Swift\
**Tags:** packagemanager\
**Created:** [February 6, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/how-to-privatize-dependencies-in-swift-package-manager/33523 "2020-02-06T16:35:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![SDGGiesbrecht](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/sdggiesbrecht/32/4768_2.png) [@SDGGiesbrecht](https://forums.swift.org/u/SDGGiesbrecht)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2021, 12:41am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/how-to-privatize-dependencies-in-swift-package-manager/33523/7 "2021-09-11T00:41:14Z")

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Update (because readers clicking “like” have pushed this thread back into the recent activity feed):

[Pull request #3562](https://github.com/apple/swift-package-manager/pull/3562)—which at the moment has passed tests but not yet been merged—aims to throw a warning whenever such an indirect dependency is imported.

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