So - what's stopping you from depending (using) anything else? Or how to stop you from doing this? BAZEL (blaze) has visiblity rules, which by default are private - e.g. the rules in your packages are hidden, unless explicitly made public, or alternatively you can white-list one by one which other packages (//java/com/google/blah/myapp) can include you back.

Let's say there is a new cool service, and your team wants to try it out... but it's not out there for everyone to use, it's in alpha, beta, whatever stage. So you ask for permission from the team, or simply create a CL with your package target, name, "..." folder resolution so that you are whitelisted - eventually you will (if that's good idea, and approved). For example you want, if some library got deprecated, and has been slowly replaced with another, and then now instead of being "//visibility:public" is just white listing the last users of it... Well probably not good idea to be added on that list, as the whole thing is going out soon (yes, Google tends to deprecate internally even faster than externally - ... which is good!). But such mechanisms are helpful in getting this worked correctly.

There are dependencies everywhere. Monorepos are one of the tools which can be used to make dealing with them easier in some cases. They’re not an absolute solution not appropriate for all circumstances, but no tool is!