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pylint is becoming really slow as I pull in more dependencies. Just to run `pylint`, do we need to build requirements.pex and all? Is there anyway I can avoid the building step?

Unfortunately, yeah. Pylint requires third-party deps to work, unlike Flake8.

&gt; do we need to build requirements.pex and all?
You could experiment with this option <https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-python#run_against_entire_lockfile>

Yes and pylint is also a product of its time (pre-type hints) so it parses all of your dependencies source code and try to infer their input/return types :dizzy_face:

So, very cool, but very slow