why does each plugin get its own dedicated virtual environment? I’m looking at the CLI documentation for

add

- it mentions that this is the behavior but doesn’t give any information about why it’s this way. I searched this Slack and found this message and thread with more context, but I’m still having a hard time understanding.

TL;DR: To avoid any dependency conflicts It’s common practice when installing Python-based tools and apps (as opposed to libraries) to use a dedicated venv for each. It’s the philosophy followed by pipx

hmm, thank you - that’s very helpful (thinking of these plugins as applications rather than libraries).

Really good summary of the overall situation ... https://medium.com/knerd/the-nine-circles-of-python-dependency-hell-481d53e3e025