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Hi everyone, I’m a pants noob. Based on the documentation, and trying things out with Pants, it looks like I don’t need to install tools like pylint, black, mypy, etc in my Poetry pyproject.toml file section `[tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]` because Pants will pull them in as necessary. Is this correct?

You opt in to those tools by specifying them in your `backend_packages` config (e.g., <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/blob/main/pants.toml#L6>) and Pants will install them in, effectively, a hidden virtualenv, configure them (applying your custom config for each tool if you have any), and run them as needed.

Pants has config options for each tool, e.g., <https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-black>, that include the ability to run a different version of the tool than the default

Thanks <@U051221NF>, I kind of thought that, but the links are very helpful to have!