Feature Request: Add a way to get tool venv specific information when using `uv tool`

[taranlu-houzz]

It would be very helpful to have the following additional functionality as flags for uv tool list:

• --show-full-dep-tree: show all of the deps installed into the tool venvs.
• --show-tool-install-command: show the original command used to install the tool (sometimes the package name does not match what is on pypi, e.g. p4python installs the P4 package).

To help differentiate tools installed with a more complicated setup, it is really helpful to have an additional suffix that gets appended to all installed script entry points (pipx does this via the --suffix flag).

Use case:

• I install coverage with additional pytest deps like this: uv tool install coverage --with pytest --with pytest-spec --with pytest-sugar.
• This lets me use uvx coverage run -m pytest to run tests with my desired plugins on any project.
• Depending on how long it has been since I used a tool, it may be hard to recall exactly what is installed in the tool environment (or how it was initially installed).

[zanieb]

I think this may be a uv tool show command instead?

We're adding suffix support (#7095)

[zanieb]

Thanks for sharing your use-cases!

[taranlu-houzz]

@zanieb Good to hear! Is uv tool show a new development? I am using uv 0.4.9 (77d278f68 2024-09-10) and that does not appear to be a subcommand yet?

[zanieb]

Oh sorry no it doesn't exist but I think it should — I think it'd be a better experience for your use-cases than adding these flags to tool list.

[KyleKing]

I would also like to see something like "show install command". mdformat and poetry have similar plugin behavior to pytest. Comparing pipx and uv:

> pipx install mdformat
> pipx inject mdformat 'mdformat-obsidian[recommended]'
> pipx install poetry
> pipx inject poetry poetry-plugin-sort poetry-relax
> pipx list --include-injected
venvs are in ~/.local/pipx/venvs
apps are exposed on your $PATH at ~/.local/bin
manual pages are exposed at ~/.local/share/man
   package mdformat 0.7.17, installed using Python 3.12.7
    - mdformat
    Injected Packages:
      - mdformat-obsidian 0.1.0
   package poetry 1.8.3, installed using Python 3.12.5
    - poetry
    Injected Packages:
      - poetry-plugin-sort 0.2.1
      - poetry-relax 1.1.0

> uv tool install --with 'mdformat-obsidian[recommended]' mdformat
> uv tool install poetry --with=poetry-plugin-sort --with=poetry-relax
> uv tool list
mdformat v0.7.17
- mdformat
poetry v1.8.3
- poetry

Being able to see this information across all installed tools at once would be really helpful. As a third option to the ones proposed in the original post, maybe there could be a --show-with flag to uv tool list?

> uv tool list --show-version-specifiers --show-with
mdformat v0.7.17 [required: ]
- mdformat
  With:
  - mdformat-obsidian 0.1.0

Or a fourth option of --show-install-options

> uv tool list --show-version-specifiers --show-install-options
mdformat v0.7.17 [required: ]
- mdformat
  Install options:
  --with 'mdformat-obsidian[recommended]'
  <additional `--with`, `--editable`, etc.>

[KyleKing]

One hackish workaround for uv might be to use: (correction: this only worked because I had separately experimented with uv tool run. Tested with uv tool install --with pytest-sugar pytest where where which pytest outputs ~/.local/bin/pytest)

> which mdformat
uv tool run --with 'mdformat-obsidian[recommended]' mdformat

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Alternatively, mdformat supports logging the found plugins and respetive versions. However, for pytest, I'm not sure if the plugins can be printed without running pytest.

> mdformat --version
mdformat 0.7.17 (mdformat_frontmatter: 2.0.8, mdformat_simple_breaks: 0.0.1, mdformat_tables: 1.0.0, mdformat_gfm: 0.3.6, mdformat_obsidian: 0.1.0, mdformat_wikilink: 0.2.0, mdformat_web: 0.1.0,
mdformat_beautysh: 0.1.1, mdformat_ruff: 0.1.3, mdformat_config: 0.1.3)

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Related to #8028 where uv may not currently remember how a tool was installed

[r-richmond]

I'm also replacing my pipx usage with UV and I was explicitly looking for UV's equivalent of pipx list --include-injected

FWIW I think @KyleKing 's suggestion of uv tool list --show-with would be perfect but I also see the value in the more complete/verbose --show-install-options.

@zanieb 's since just the --show-with request/suggestion has diverged a little from the OP should a separate issue be made for it or would like to keep it centralized here?