diff --git a/pixi.toml b/pixi.toml
index d538096ab..e3c2fbc2e 100644
--- a/pixi.toml
+++ b/pixi.toml
@@ -142,25 +142,31 @@ ribasim-core-testmodels = { cmd = "julia --project utils/testmodelrun.jl", depen
 github-release = "python utils/github-release.py"
 
 [dependencies]
-build = "*"
 geopandas = "*"
+matplotlib = "*"
+numpy = "*"
+pandas = "==2.1.4"          # Avoid excessive deprecation warnings from pandera (#984)
+pandera = "*"
+pyarrow = "*"
+pydantic = ">=2"
+pyogrio = "*"
+shapely = ">=2.0"
+tomli = "*"
+tomli-w = "*"
+
+[feature.dev.dependencies]
+build = "*"
 gh = "*"
 hatchling = "*"
 juliaup = "*"
 jupyterlab = "*"
 libgdal-arrow-parquet = "*"
-matplotlib = "*"
 mypy = "*"
 netCDF4 = "*"
-pandas = "==2.1.4"          # Avoid excessive deprecation warnings from pandera (#984)
 pandas-stubs = "*"
-pandera = "*"
 pip = "*"
 platformdirs = "*"
 pre-commit = "*"
-pyarrow = "*"
-pydantic = ">=2"
-pyogrio = "*"
 pyqt-stubs = "*"
 pytest = "*"
 pytest-cov = "*"
@@ -171,9 +177,6 @@ qgis-plugin-manager = "*"
 quarto = "*"
 quartodoc = "*"
 ruff = "*"
-shapely = ">=2.0"
-tomli = "*"
-tomli-w = "*"
 twine = "*"
 typing-extensions = ">=4.6"
 xarray = "*"