uv equivalent to pipx inject

[zachvalenta]

I searched through issues but didn't find anything similar - apologies if there's already an issue that I missed.

pipx let's you install ('inject') additional packages into an env e.g. add psycopg2 into the env for visidata so you can connect to Postgres:

pipx install visidata
pipx inject visidata psycopg2

Does uv have this capability now or, if not, is it on the roadmap?

[zanieb]

I think we explicitly won't provide this — you should enumerate all the dependencies in the installation.

There's #3560 but I'm not sure if it's explicitly discussed.

[zachvalenta]

Based on the issue you linked, seems like the way this works in uv is via the --with arg, yes?

# pipx
pipx install visidata
pipx inject visidata psycopg2

# uv
uv tool install --with psycopg2 visidata

[zanieb]

Yep! This is covered in https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/tools/#including-additional-dependencies — the RFC isn't necessarily exactly what was implemented.

[zachvalenta]

Great. Will close this issue, and now anyone coming from pipx and the semantics of 'inject' will find the uv way of doing it.