You only need to do it once, when the symlink is created...
My point is that venvs are a code smell. Again, there's a reason basically no other programming language ecosystem needs them. They're there because in Python's history, that was the best idea they had 20 years ago (or whenever they were created), where they didn't even bother to do their homework and see what other ecosystems did to solve that specific problem.
> You say this like you think there's something difficult or onerous about using virtual environments. There really isn't.
They're a bad, leaky, abstraction. They provide value through a mechanism that is cumbersome and doesn't even work well compared to basically all competing solution used outside of Python.
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Anyway, I've used Python for long enough and I've seem many variations of your argument often enough that I'm just... bored. Python packaging is a cluster** and it has sooo many braindead ideas (like setup.py having arbitrary code in it :-| ) that yes, with a ton of work invested in it, if you squint enough, it basically works.
But that doesn't excuse the ton of bad design around it.
