diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ee5c967..2232278 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -36,6 +36,14 @@ path = "rendercv/__init__.py"
 # want to include `docs` and `tests` because they are not needed to run RenderCV.
 include = ["/README.md", "/rendercv"]
 
+# We use tinytex-release as a git submodule, so it's a seperate repository. We don't
+# want to ship all the files from that repository with RenderCV.
+exclude = [
+    "/rendercv/tinytex-release/recycle_bin",
+    "/rendercv/tinytex-release/minimize_tinytex_for_rendercv.py",
+    "/rendercv/tinytex-release/.gitignore",
+]
+
 [project]
 # Under the `project` section, we specify the metadata about RenderCV.
 name = 'rendercv'