diff --git a/.azure-pipelines/docs.yml b/.azure-pipelines/docs.yml
index b66bcd2a5072..fa57eb8c3475 100644
--- a/.azure-pipelines/docs.yml
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/docs.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ jobs:
         displayName: 'Install All Packages'
         inputs:
           scriptPath: 'scripts/dev_setup.py'
-
+          arguments: '--exceptionlist=azure-eventhubs-checkpointstoreblob-aio'
+=
       - powershell: |
           cd $(Build.SourcesDirectory)/doc/sphinx
           pip install -r requirements.txt
diff --git a/scripts/dev_setup.py b/scripts/dev_setup.py
index 77b11d4f2e68..c75d1860f8db 100644
--- a/scripts/dev_setup.py
+++ b/scripts/dev_setup.py
@@ -30,6 +30,20 @@ def pip_command(command, additional_dir=".", error_ok=False):
         if not error_ok:
             sys.exit(1)
 
+def select_install_type(pkg, run_develop, exceptions):
+    # the default for disable_develop will be false, which means `run_develop` will be true
+    argument = ""
+    if run_develop:
+        argument = "-e"
+
+    if pkg in exceptions:
+        # opposite of whatever our decision was
+        if argument == "":
+            argument = "-e"
+        elif argument == "-e":
+            argument = ""
+
+    return argument
 
 # optional argument in a situation where we want to build a variable subset of packages
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
@@ -44,22 +58,32 @@ def pip_command(command, additional_dir=".", error_ok=False):
 )
 parser.add_argument(
     "--disabledevelop",
-    dest="develop_mode_disabled",
-    default=False,
-    action="store_true",
+    dest="install_in_develop_mode",
+    default=True,
+    action="store_false",
     help="Add this argument if you would prefer to install the package with a simple `pip install` versus `pip install -e`",
 )
-
+# this is a hack to support generating docs for the single package that doesn't support develop mode. It will be removed when we 
+# migrate to generating docs on a per-package cadence.
+parser.add_argument(
+    "--exceptionlist",
+    "-e",
+    dest="exception_list",
+    default="",
+    help="Comma separated list of packages that we want to take the 'opposite' installation method for.",
+)
 
 args = parser.parse_args()
 
 packages = {
     tuple(os.path.dirname(f).rsplit(os.sep, 1))
-    for f in glob.glob("sdk/*/azure*/setup.py") + glob.glob("tools/azure*/setup.py")
+    for f in glob.glob("sdk/*/azure-*/setup.py") + glob.glob("tools/azure-*/setup.py")
 }
 # [(base_folder, package_name), ...] to {package_name: base_folder, ...}
 packages = {package_name: base_folder for (base_folder, package_name) in packages}
 
+exceptions = [p.strip() for p in args.exception_list.split(',')]
+
 # keep targeted packages separate. python2 needs the nspkgs to work properly.
 if not args.packageList:
     targeted_packages = list(packages.keys())
@@ -118,6 +142,8 @@ def pip_command(command, additional_dir=".", error_ok=False):
     for package_name in nspkg_packages:
         pip_command("install {}/{}/".format(packages[package_name], package_name))
 
+
+
 # install packages
 print("Packages to install: {}".format(content_packages))
 for package_name in content_packages:
@@ -132,11 +158,9 @@ def pip_command(command, additional_dir=".", error_ok=False):
             os.path.join(packages[package_name], package_name),
         )
 
-    mode_arg = "" if args.develop_mode_disabled else "-e"
-
     pip_command(
         "install --ignore-requires-python {} {}".format(
-            mode_arg,
+            select_install_type(package_name, args.install_in_develop_mode, exceptions),
             os.path.join(packages[package_name], package_name)
         )
     )