is there a way to ignore dependencies between two targets? Or to terminate dependency traversal at specific target types (in specific controlled cases)? my

contract

target depends on

python_sources

which /eventually/ depends on a second

contract

and I can't package two contracts into one. So either I need to ignore the

contract -> sources

relationship (for anything that isn't off the root target), or just stop at

contract

Currently I've added a

skip_contract_pkg

flag to PythonSources, but its kinda gross and probably gonna bite me in the ass.

is there a way to ignore dependencies between two targets?

Actually Josh did implement this last month 😅 https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/16155 User API side, you use

!

and

!!

to exclude things

ah, not as "done for you" as I'd have hoped

Or to terminate dependency traversal at specific target types (in specific controlled cases)?

You might be able to use the "transitive excludes" feature

!!<addr>

, it's enabled for any target whose

dependencies

sets

supports_transitive_excludes

: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/blob/5fffd71c8c0ef87ec93621cfaa6820b3ec1e9988/src/python/pants/engine/target.py#L2435