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# development
I wouldn't say its good or bad. @curved-television-6568 added support for "synthetic targets" for this same use-case but for lockfiles. I think in an ideal world, ALL files come from targets. But: 1. Thats the ideal 2. That ain't what we got today 😅
w
🙂 The config point you mentioned, I never knew that. I would have thought, intuitively, that a --transitive flag would go back into that layer as well... Can't think of any cases where I've run into it though
b
It can't
--transitive
works on the dependency graph.
PathGlobs
only exist in rule-code thats being executed
w
Yeah, good point
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