We use goose as part of our AWS Serverless code. There is a code limit of around 80M for deployment of an AWS Lambda. When deploying recently I ran in to a problem since pip for goose downloads a dependency jieba which apparently is a Chinese language module. This module is 36M! It eats around half my deployment limit for something I don't even want to use.

Aside from doing a manual packaging of my lambda is there any way to tell AWS sam or pip to exclude the unwanted package? I feel strongly that something this large should be a separate install and not a direct dependency. Why would you require this module when it's huge and most people won't even use it?

Any help would be appreciated.