# Exclude large bower libraries from minification

**URL:** <https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/exclude-large-bower-libraries-from-minification/7832>\
**Category:** Ember CLI\
**Created:** [April 20, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/exclude-large-bower-libraries-from-minification/7832 "2015-04-20T19:12:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![NikolaMandic](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/nikolamandic/32/10499_2.png) [@NikolaMandic](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/NikolaMandic)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/exclude-large-bower-libraries-from-minification/7832/1 "2015-04-20T19:12:24Z")

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Hello,

I would like to concat and minify some while only concating other bower dependencies. Right now I’ve been using app.import to add dependencies. Is it possible to do that in order to avoid long build times?

Regards