_pipeline: remove targets_include()

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/src/buildstream/_pipeline.py b/src/buildstream/_pipeline.py
index a40d89861..ed630d933 100644
--- a/src/buildstream/_pipeline.py
+++ b/src/buildstream/_pipeline.py
@@ -317,23 +317,6 @@ class Pipeline:
         # in before.
         return [element for element in elements if element in visited]
 
-    # targets_include()
-    #
-    # Checks whether the given targets are, or depend on some elements
-    #
-    # Args:
-    #    targets (list of Element): A list of targets
-    #    elements (list of Element): List of elements to check
-    #
-    # Returns:
-    #    (bool): True if all of `elements` are the `targets`, or are
-    #            somehow depended on by `targets`.
-    #
-    def targets_include(self, targets, elements):
-        target_element_set = set(self.dependencies(targets, Scope.ALL))
-        element_set = set(elements)
-        return element_set.issubset(target_element_set)
-
     # subtract_elements()
     #
     # Subtract a subset of elements