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Does anyone know why pants main adds packages like this? Shouldn't it just be backend_packages = []? Or .add( ... )

EvenBetterToml doesnt like this
```backend_packages.add = [
  "pants.backend.build_files.fix.deprecations",
   ...```

But after what I’ve been combatting the last couple of days, nothing surprises me any more

:laughing:

We have a bunch of `add` capabilities - but, yeah, I've never used it this way - but it's been like this for years. I thought it was causing a bug, but nope - I just had a weird code day