if you don't set it, you get

23:45:46 [WARN] /Users/stuhood/.pex/install/pantsbuild.pants-1.25.0.dev3+gitff562b70-cp36-abi3-macosx_10_11_x86_64.whl.07501c0a413887737ab82818343e3698b25224ee/pantsbuild.pants-1.25.0.dev3+gitff562b70-cp36-abi3-macosx_10_11_x86_64.whl/pants/task/console_task.py:80: DeprecationWarning: DEPRECATED: Pants defaulting to `--transitive` for `options` will be removed in version 1.27.0.dev0.
  Currently, Pants defaults to `--transitive`, which means that it will run against transitive dependencies for the targets you specify on the command line, rather than only the targets you specify. This is often useful, such as running `./pants dependencies --transitive`, but it is surprising to have this behavior by default.

To prepare for this change to the default value, set in `pants.ini` under the section `options` the value `transitive: False`. In Pants 1.27.0, you can safely remove the setting.
  targets = self.get_targets() if self.act_transitively else self.context.target_roots

we might want to remove the deprecation of the option itself until after the "is not set" deprecation is completed

it was entirely an error in implementation

requesting that people set it explicitly seems fine... it's just that you can't also deprecate the option if you're asking people to set it

but maybe i'm missing something.

Now, by default,

./pants options

won’t have any deprecation warning. We only warn when explicitly setting

--transitive

as it makes no sense to configure it for

options

and we’ll be removing

--options-transitive

soon

To clarify a bit more, the deprecations depend upon which task we’re talking about. For something like

filedeps

, we do still deprecate when you rely on the default of

--transitive

For goals that ignore the option, we only deprecate when you explicitly use the option rather than the default

For something like

filedeps

, we do still deprecate when you rely on the default of

--transitive

and in this case, the option itself is not deprecated...?

(yea, looks like it.)

ok, thanks!