Is the the `dependees` goal supposed to respect the ` filter

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Is the the `dependees` goal supposed to respect the ` filter target types` option It does not seem like it does to me

hundreds-father-404 · Answer

what Pants version

loud-laptop-17949 · Answer

2 14 0rc1+gitf06bf22b

hundreds-father-404 · Answer

yeah it should definitely respect it

hundreds-father-404 · Answer

but we only filter the input roots I think not the dependees

hundreds-father-404 · Answer

if you want to filter the output then you d want to pipe with `| xargs pants filter target types=foo list`

loud-laptop-17949 · Answer

yeah I was expecting it to do the latter

hundreds-father-404 · Answer

we could possibly make a change to support that although we d need to figure out semantically whether we still pre filter the input roots which may not be what you intended If we don t pre filter we lose consistency with other goals It s an open can of semantic questions