diff --git a/src/coreComponents/constitutive/CMakeLists.txt b/src/coreComponents/constitutive/CMakeLists.txt
index 934f0a961da..ceb6c71f50f 100644
--- a/src/coreComponents/constitutive/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/coreComponents/constitutive/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ set( constitutive_sources
      thermalConductivity/SinglePhaseThermalConductivityBase.cpp
    )
 
-set( dependencyList ${parallelDeps} dataRepository functions denseLinearAlgebra )
+set( dependencyList ${parallelDeps} functions denseLinearAlgebra )
 
 if( ENABLE_PVTPackage )
     set( constitutive_headers
diff --git a/src/coreComponents/events/CMakeLists.txt b/src/coreComponents/events/CMakeLists.txt
index 59217e42f7d..070be631638 100644
--- a/src/coreComponents/events/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/coreComponents/events/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ set( events_sources
      tasks/TasksManager.cpp
    )
 
-set( dependencyList ${parallelDeps} common fileIO dataRepository )
+set( dependencyList ${parallelDeps} fileIO )
 
 blt_add_library( NAME       events
                  SOURCES    ${events_sources}
diff --git a/src/coreComponents/fieldSpecification/CMakeLists.txt b/src/coreComponents/fieldSpecification/CMakeLists.txt
index d13d6a6c795..7337cb2a73b 100644
--- a/src/coreComponents/fieldSpecification/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/coreComponents/fieldSpecification/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ set( fieldSpecification_sources
      PerfectlyMatchedLayer.cpp
    )
 
-set( dependencyList ${parallelDeps} functions linearAlgebra )
+set( dependencyList ${parallelDeps} linearAlgebra )
 
 blt_add_library( NAME       fieldSpecification
                  SOURCES    ${fieldSpecification_sources}
diff --git a/src/coreComponents/fileIO/CMakeLists.txt b/src/coreComponents/fileIO/CMakeLists.txt
index 84c758fa2b2..1570ec71185 100644
--- a/src/coreComponents/fileIO/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/coreComponents/fileIO/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ set( fileIO_sources
      timeHistory/PackCollection.cpp
      timeHistory/HDFHistoryIO.cpp )
 
-set( dependencyList ${parallelDeps} mesh constitutive HDF5::HDF5 )
+set( dependencyList ${parallelDeps} mesh HDF5::HDF5 )
 if( ENABLE_PYGEOSX )
   list( APPEND fileIO_headers
         python/PyHistoryCollectionType.hpp
diff --git a/src/coreComponents/finiteVolume/CMakeLists.txt b/src/coreComponents/finiteVolume/CMakeLists.txt
index 46b200344fa..5ca625a8504 100644
--- a/src/coreComponents/finiteVolume/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/coreComponents/finiteVolume/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ set( finiteVolume_sources
      HybridMimeticDiscretization.cpp
    )
 
-set( dependencyList ${parallelDeps} mesh codingUtilities fieldSpecification )
+set( dependencyList ${parallelDeps} mesh fieldSpecification )
 
 blt_add_library( NAME       finiteVolume
                  SOURCES    ${finiteVolume_sources}
diff --git a/src/coreComponents/functions/CMakeLists.txt b/src/coreComponents/functions/CMakeLists.txt
index 7e402fbbffe..b77254f8f28 100644
--- a/src/coreComponents/functions/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/coreComponents/functions/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ if( ENABLE_MATHPRESSO )
 endif()
 
 
-set( dependencyList ${parallelDeps} codingUtilities dataRepository )
+set( dependencyList ${parallelDeps} dataRepository )
 
 if( ENABLE_MATHPRESSO )
    list( APPEND dependencyList mathpresso )
diff --git a/src/coreComponents/mainInterface/CMakeLists.txt b/src/coreComponents/mainInterface/CMakeLists.txt
index 4b141ea8b7f..6ffb065c37b 100644
--- a/src/coreComponents/mainInterface/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/coreComponents/mainInterface/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ set( mainInterface_sources
      version.cpp
    )
 
-set( dependencyList ${parallelDeps} physicsSolvers discretizationMethods fieldSpecification linearAlgebra dataRepository events fileIO optionparser )
+set( dependencyList ${parallelDeps} physicsSolvers optionparser )
 
 blt_add_library( NAME       mainInterface
                  SOURCES    ${mainInterface_sources}
diff --git a/src/coreComponents/mesh/CMakeLists.txt b/src/coreComponents/mesh/CMakeLists.txt
index 7548a76d8f6..281097ec970 100644
--- a/src/coreComponents/mesh/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/coreComponents/mesh/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ set( mesh_sources
      simpleGeometricObjects/ThickPlane.cpp
      utilities/ComputationalGeometry.cpp )
 
-set( dependencyList ${parallelDeps} schema dataRepository constitutive finiteElement parmetis metis )
+set( dependencyList ${parallelDeps} schema constitutive finiteElement parmetis metis )
 
 if( ENABLE_VTK )
     message(STATUS "Adding VTK readers")
diff --git a/src/coreComponents/physicsSolvers/CMakeLists.txt b/src/coreComponents/physicsSolvers/CMakeLists.txt
index cfcdce65e78..e41e5ffaf73 100644
--- a/src/coreComponents/physicsSolvers/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/coreComponents/physicsSolvers/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ if( GEOS_ENABLE_WAVEPROPAGATION )
   add_subdirectory( wavePropagation )
 endif()
 
-set( dependencyList ${parallelDeps} constitutive mesh linearAlgebra discretizationMethods events )
+set( dependencyList ${parallelDeps} discretizationMethods events )
 if( ENABLE_PYGEOSX )
   list( APPEND physicsSolvers_headers
   python/PySolver.hpp