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Hello Everyone, using pants i noticed something and found out that this seems the best place to get in touch with you and others working with pants.

I noticed that `pants dependencies`  and `pants dependents`  behave differently and would like to know if its expected behaviour, a bug or just work in progress. `pants dependencies`  respects my manual exclusions in the `BUILD` files but `pants dependents`  does not. Any Ideas?

Hmm, sounds like possibly a bug! If it's not a lot of trouble, could you create a tiny repo that reproduces the issue?

And checking that by manual exclusions you mean use of `!` and/or `!!` in `dependencies=` ?

Yes, I used the transitive exclusion `!!` to exclude some dependencies manually from a docker target (`docker_image(...)`) and then checked both directions with `pants --transitive dependencies`  and  `dependents`.

Gotcha. What would be really helpful is a tiny example repo on github that reproduces this, with a README that explains how to reproduce it. Then we can be sure we're all talking about the same thing, and can verify any fixes.