[tdeck]

But then all the tool's dependencies have to play nice with the dependencies of all your other unrelated Python-based tools.

One thing you can do (I'm not saying it's user friendly) is set up the tool in a virtualenv and then set up an alias like

    alias foo-tool=/home/blah blah/tools/something/env/bin/python -m foo-tool

[zahlman]

Or you can make a symlink from your PATH, which is how Pipx does it.

[timcobb]

But this is true for anything that isn't statically linked?

[zahlman]

Why would static linking be necessary? The virtual environment contains all the needed dependencies, and isolates them from everything else.

[kalaksi]

ah, right!