(Putting aside the question of why pants didn't infer the dependency.)

Was dependency inference at play? Seems like the issues stem from values provided in BUILD files? Unless you mean the

torch -. setuptools

issue, which is really just a prolific problem in Python packages, where they assume

setuptools

exists in every Python environment and so don't declare the dep

Probably the latter. Which yeah is not a Pants dep inference problem per se.

It's the latter for the bits in

overrides

. The one that threw me was that something in the past referred to

pkg_resources

but didn't pull in

setuptools

... but that was quite a while ago (these are legacy BUILD files by now!) I'll try removing that line and seeing if it's still necessary.

I love Python, but packaging is just so broken 😐

I did remove the line and things seeeeem to be going okay, so perhaps whatever required it was fixed some time in the past 🙂