#20181 `pants dependents ::` doesn't produce any output Issue created by AlexTereshenkov Describe the bug Running

pants dependents ::

doesn't produce any output:

$ pants dependents :: ; echo $?                                           
0

This applies to multiple repos I've tried as well as the Pants repo itself. Running

$ pants list :: | xargs pants dependents

does produce the list of targets and so does

pants dependencies ::

so it must be something about asking "who depends on everything?" that Pants is confused about. Pants version 2.16.0 / 2.17.0 / 2.19.0a0 OS Both Additional info It's very unlikely that someone would be interested to execute this query, but it feels wrong to not emit anything as a result as if no one depends on everything. We should either fail loud or list dependents of every target expanded from

::

. pantsbuild/pants