heya 👋 I'm using the experimental_test_shell_command for some tests, is there a way to exclude transitive dependencies from being copied into the chroot? 🙏

If you have specific dependencies you want excluded, do the exclusion/ignore flags mentioned in https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/targets#dependencies-field get you what you need?

As you probably know, experimental_test_shell_command doesn't have a dependencies field, only execution_dependencies. I did try the exclusion flags but no luck unfortunately. To my understanding, pants treats it as a file path, not a target; so it sees the ignore flag as an invalid/non-existent file.

The execution dependencies field is another flavor of dependencies field. That being said, only the "direct exclude" (e.g. single "!") would work here

tried both single and double; got error in both cases. e,g, for "!python/cli:update_version" I got

ResolveError: The file or directory '!python/cli' does not exist on disk in the workspace, so the address '!python/cli:update_version' from the `execution_dependencies` from the target images/base/toolbox:test cannot be resolved.

If you can reproduce in a tiny little repo, please file an issue. Looks like a bug to me 😬

sure thing 👍