actually let's not touch sd for now

.github/workflows/ci_linux_x64_nogil-libshortfin.yml

@@ -98,6 +98,6 @@ jobs:
     - name: Run shortfin Python tests (full)
       working-directory: ${{ env.LIBSHORTFIN_DIR }}
       run: |
-        pytest -s --ignore=tests/examples/fastapi_test.py
+        pytest -s --ignore=tests/examples/fastapi_test.py --ignore=tests/apps/sd
       # TODO: Enable further tests and switch to
       # pytest -s

shortfin/python/shortfin_apps/sd/_deps.py

@@ -6,17 +6,17 @@
 
 from shortfin.support.deps import ShortfinDepNotFoundError
 
-shortfin_llm_deps = ["tokenizers", "dataclasses_json", "transformers"]
+try:
+    import transformers
+except ModuleNotFoundError as e:
+    raise ShortfinDepNotFoundError(__name__, "transformers") from e
 
-for dep in deps:
-    try:
-        __import__(dep)
-    except ModuleNotFoundError as e:
-        if "pytest" in sys.modules:
-            import pytest
+try:
+    import tokenizers
+except ModuleNotFoundError as e:
+    raise ShortfinDepNotFoundError(__name__, "tokenizers") from e
 
-            pytest.skip(
-                f"Shortfin LLM dependency not available: {dep}", allow_module_level=True
-            )
-        else:
-            raise ShortfinDepNotFoundError(__name__, dep) from e
+try:
+    import dataclasses_json
+except ModuleNotFoundError as e:
+    raise ShortfinDepNotFoundError(__name__, "dataclasses-json") from e