RMS integration in RMG

[mefuller]

I don't know where else to ask this, so I'll open a discussion:
Why does installation of RMG now require importing and linking RMS with Julia?
From my perspective, I want to use RMG to generate mechanisms which are agnostic as far as simulation software goes (Chemkin, Cantera, RMS).
Naively, pulling in Julia and RMS seems to add bloat to an RMG installation that I don't need and seems to be outside of most use-cases (in my anecdotal experience).

So (1) what is the reason for these dependencies and (2) can there be an option to not pull in Julia and RMS on RMG installations?