I wonder if we could have a

disambiguate

target. If there are multiple source roots that each contain a

tests.fixtures

package, for example, maybe we could do something like

disambiguate(packages={"tests.fixtures": "./fixtures/"})

. Or even, add another arg to

python_library

like

python_library(disambiguate={"tests.fixtures": "./fixtures/"})

so that anything in that target that imports something from

tests.fixtures

would use the

./fixtures/

as the dependency. And any files that do not depend on

tests.fixtures

would not get a hard-coded dependency on it (as with

python_library(dependencies=…)

). Basically, an extra knob to tune dependency inference without requiring hard-coded dependencies.

Would targets in the directory subtree automatically pick up that disambiguation based on their file paths being in the subtree? Or they explicitly opt into it?

If

disambiguate

is a target, then I would hope that it would apply to at least all of the targets in the current BUILD file. Bonus points if there's a way to apply that to sub directories as well.