I have a project whose Docker image takes a very long time to build, and is completely irrelevant for local development. Using

pants package ::

means it will always be built. Is it possible to centrally disable this target, such that it is never selected unless explicitly specified? This is to prevent all of my developers from having to use `

pants --tag='-annoying_project' package ::

You can also configure

tag

in your pants.toml if you want

-annoying_project

to be the default, so that’d be one way to do it. Makes using

--tag

in the command line slightly more annoying those since you have to append to the list if you want to keep the defaults.

Hmm. Using

tag

in the pants.toml does allow me to avoid it on the command line. However, is it possible to override it on the command line? Using

pants --tag="annoying_project" package /path/to/annoying/project/Dockerfile

does not seem to build it either.

Morten, the docs indicate that supplying the tag arg several time like in

pants --tag='+type_checked,skip_lint' --tag='-integration_test' list ::

will add to the list. I think there will be a way to supply the whole list. Have you tried

--tag="[annoying_project]"

?

I definitely missed the part about

[]

. That works!