Dependency not lazyloading?

[rieje]

When I have:

return {
  {
    "numToStr/Comment.nvim",
      lazy = true,
      config = function()
        require("Comment").setup()
        end
  },
}

and start Neovim, Comment.nvim not loaded as expected. But if I have this as a dependency:

return {
  { 
    "neovim/nvim-lspconfig",
    dependencies = {
      'folke/neodev.nvim',
      {
        "numToStr/Comment.nvim",
        config = function()
          require("Comment").setup()
        end
      },
    },
  }
}

the plugin gets loaded on startup despite it being a dependency where it should be implicitly lazyloaded. I also tried explicitly lazyloading it (lazy = true).

Am I missing something?

[folke]

Dependencies always load when the parent plugin loads, since the parent depends on its dependencies

[dbatten5]

How about in situations where the parent depends on dependencies that should only be loaded in certain conditions? For example, lspconfig loaded for all filetypes but I only need neodev for lua files, but I need to ensure that neodev is run before lspconfig is setup so I feel there needs to be a parent/child dependency set. How would you recommend setting that up?