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support the creation fo an actual plugin dependency tree and use its root for consideration/order

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reading the issue discussion and examining how pytest conftests use pytest_plugins across different paths. Investigate the proposed plugin dependency-tree and root-ordering behavior, including optional and direct dependencies. Done criteria require experiments and a concrete, agreed scope before implementation.

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Description

enhancement

in pytest when we use conftests with pytest_plugins,
those specifications are not disabled when using other paths

as such, as soon as trees of conftests that use pytest_plugins, we get a inconsistent dependency state of plugins

additionally some plugins dod epend on other plugins either optionally or directly

experiments and a larger discussion are needed to give this issue the required detail for concrete action

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