I think you can set some settings in

pants.toml

, either: 1.

[python] tailor_requirements_targets = false

https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-python#tailor_requirements_targets to ignore all requirements files by default (and then add the targets manually, as required) 2.

[tailor] ignore_adding_targets = [...]

https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-tailor#ignore_adding_targets to ignore specific ones I'd probably go with 1, I think