>>How do you tell VFP to NOT scan the project looking for dependencies that it then automatically adds to the project?
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>>If you have one class or reference in the wrong place and you try to build a small little project VFP ends up finding that reference and ends up pulling code from other projects into this project. It's very handy behavior most of the time, but sometimes it's a giant PIA.
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>Have you tried including dummy versions (basically stubs), that you add to project and tag as excluded?

Yeah, this is a good one.
In example, you create a new procedure file you never will use, but include it in the project, let's say "lib_external.prg", then inside you add the files that don't want VFP add in the project. The trick is that VFP finds them here, and won't continue searching.

Another option is just mark them as excluded.