Option --exclude does not exclude the dependencies from the output #452
Description
What pipdeptree version are you using?
2.25.0
Are you running pipdeptree in a virtual environment?
No
Describe the problem
According to #69, the --exclude should behave as a filter to remove all the dependencies. Currently, it doesn't work like that, putting the dependencies at the top level. Here are examples:
# pipdeptree --path /usr/local/lib/python*/dist-packages/
pipdeptree==2.25.0
├── packaging [required: >=24.1, installed: 24.2]
└── pip [required: >=24.2, installed: 25.0.1]
pytest-random-order==1.1.1
└── pytest [required: >=3.0.0, installed: 8.3.4]
├── exceptiongroup [required: >=1.0.0rc8, installed: 1.2.2]
├── iniconfig [required: Any, installed: 2.0.0]
├── packaging [required: Any, installed: 24.2]
├── pluggy [required: >=1.5,<2, installed: 1.5.0]
└── tomli [required: >=1, installed: 2.2.1]
# pipdeptree --path /usr/local/lib/python*/dist-packages/ --exclude pipdeptree
pip==25.0.1
pytest-random-order==1.1.1
└── pytest [required: >=3.0.0, installed: 8.3.4]
├── exceptiongroup [required: >=1.0.0rc8, installed: 1.2.2]
├── iniconfig [required: Any, installed: 2.0.0]
├── packaging [required: Any, installed: 24.2]
├── pluggy [required: >=1.5,<2, installed: 1.5.0]
└── tomli [required: >=1, installed: 2.2.1]
# pipdeptree --path /usr/local/lib/python*/dist-packages/ --freeze
pipdeptree==2.25.0
packaging==24.2
pip==25.0.1
pytest-random-order==1.1.1
pytest==8.3.4
exceptiongroup==1.2.2
iniconfig==2.0.0
packaging==24.2
pluggy==1.5.0
tomli==2.2.1
# pipdeptree --path /usr/local/lib/python*/dist-packages/ --freeze --exclude pipdeptree
pip==25.0.1
pytest-random-order==1.1.1
pytest==8.3.4
exceptiongroup==1.2.2
iniconfig==2.0.0
packaging==24.2
pluggy==1.5.0
tomli==2.2.1
The pip was installed as a dependency for pipdeptree:
# pip install pipdeptree
Collecting pipdeptree
Downloading pipdeptree-2.25.0-py3-none-any.whl (32 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: packaging>=24.1 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from pipdeptree) (24.2)
Collecting pip>=24.2
Downloading pip-25.0.1-py3-none-any.whl (1.8 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1.8/1.8 MB 9.8 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing collected packages: pip, pipdeptree
Attempting uninstall: pip
Found existing installation: pip 22.0.2
Not uninstalling pip at /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages, outside environment /usr
Can't uninstall 'pip'. No files were found to uninstall.
Successfully installed pip-25.0.1 pipdeptree-2.25.0
WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It is recommended to use a virtual environment instead: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv