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This will probably sound bad without context, but is there any way to add a directory as a dependency recursively? I've got a bunch of `protobuf_sources` scattered under a tree and I need to bring them all in as a dependency for a `python_source`.

Hi! Are they not being inferred? Pants has dependency inference for Protobuf, `f.proto` maps to `f_pb2.py`. A major benefit of this approach is that it has file-level granularity—Pants will only generate the files that are actually needed, and it will cache each of those generations

But, you might need to set up source roots still <https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/source-roots>

Failing that...the idiomatic pattern for this is to use a generic `target()` as a "bag of dependencies". You add everything you want to the `dependencies` of this `target()`, and then when you depend on that `target()` you'll transitively pull everything in. <https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-target>

They're not. The paths are, for legacy reasons, coming from a yaml file. So, unless I go add all the `protobuf_sources` as a dependency, it doesn't get picked up because there's nothing for pants to infer.