[Enhancement]: milvus-lite optional dependency #2975
Description
Is there an existing issue for this?
- I have searched the existing issues
What would you like to be added?
milvus-lite can be an optional dependency as it is a heavyweight dependency that is only used if running milvus locally.
Why is this needed?
milvus-lite is installed as a dependency when installing pymilvus, but it is completely unused in my application. It is a 180mb dependency which is relatively large and contributes to bloating in my application docker image.
Anything else?
milvus-lite is ~180mb in my docker image:
