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packages/zotero-mcp/package.nix

@@ -93,27 +93,16 @@ python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
     # anything needed at runtime must live in this list.
     pymupdf
     ebooklib
-  ];
+    # Runtime deps for the semantic-search tools (upstream "semantic" extra).
-
+    # zotero_mcp.semantic_search imports chromadb unconditionally at module
-  # Optional extras (semantic search, PDF, scite).
+    # scope (embeddings/providers/__init__.py, chroma_client.py), so these are
-  # NOTE: buildPythonApplication stores these in passthru only and does NOT
+    # hard requirements, not truly optional at runtime.
-  # install them; adding an extra here has no runtime effect.
-  optional-dependencies = with python3Packages; {
-    semantic = [
     chromadb
     sentence-transformers
     openai
     google-genai
     tiktoken
   ];
-    pdf = [
-      pymupdf
-      ebooklib
-    ];
-    scite = [
-      requests
-    ];
-  };
 
   pythonImportsCheck = [ "zotero_mcp" ];