diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
index fb82cbb..1945c3b 100644
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -2,10 +2,13 @@ version: 2
 updates:
 - package-ecosystem: pip
   directory: "/"
+  exclude-paths:
+      - "requirements-dev.txt"
+      - "setup.py"
   schedule:
     interval: weekly
     time: "01:30"
-  open-pull-requests-limit: 10
+  open-pull-requests-limit: 5
   target-branch: dev
   assignees:
       - "sadrasabouri"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index ffad9f8..2c05709 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
           pip install .
-      - name: Test requirements installation
+      - name: Dev requirements installation
         run: |
-          pip install -r dev-requirements.txt
+          pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
       - name: Test with pytest
         run: |
           python -m pytest . --cov=tocount --cov-report=term
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b1a56dc..d09e620 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 - `TocountValidationError` class
 ### Changed
 - `setup.py` updated
+- Dependencies structure modified
 ## [0.5] - 2026-01-02
 ### Added
 - `DEEPSEEK_R1.LINEAR_ALL` model
diff --git a/dev-requirements.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from dev-requirements.txt
rename to requirements-dev.txt
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 320b7ad..f738339 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,13 +2,6 @@
 """Setup module."""
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
-
-def get_requires() -> list:
-    """Read requirements.txt."""
-    requirements = open("requirements.txt", "r").read()
-    return list(filter(lambda x: x != "", requirements.split()))
-
-
 def read_description() -> str:
     """Read README.md and CHANGELOG.md."""
     try:
@@ -27,7 +20,7 @@ def read_description() -> str:
 
 setup(
     name='tocount',
-    packages=find_packages(include=["tocount*"]),
+    packages=find_packages(include=['tocount*']),
     version='0.5',
     description='ToCount: Lightweight Token Estimator',
     long_description=read_description(),
@@ -36,11 +29,11 @@ def read_description() -> str:
     author_email='tocount@openscilab.com',
     url='https://github.com/openscilab/tocount',
     download_url='https://github.com/openscilab/tocount/tarball/v0.5',
-    keywords="token tokenizer estimation llm ml nlp",
+    keywords='token tokenizer estimation llm ml nlp',
     project_urls={
             'Source': 'https://github.com/openscilab/tocount',
     },
-    install_requires=get_requires(),
+    install_requires=[],
     python_requires='>=3.7',
     classifiers=[
         'Development Status :: 3 - Alpha',