Named tools are installed by definition

You can use a tool alias though

Do you need -T or just -X?

If you want to both install and run, that’s going to be two commands

I want to run https://github.com/namenu/deps-diff, without using the content of my deps.edn file in the classpath, so I think as -T?

@U051KLSJF There's no entry point to run that via -T or -X with paths to EDN files. It has a GH action that invokes the CLI twice to produce deps trees and then compares those as EDN: https://github.com/namenu/deps-diff/blob/main/action.yml#L64-L89

(I mean, yes, there's a -X entrypoint the action uses but you need to run two CLI commands first to prep the data)

Yup, I need to fork it to get it to run its own diff as a tool. Currently, it is running as clojure -Sdeps which means that everything in the deps.edn is also included in the classpath, which is causing issues in our case

The other issue with installing as a tool in a GitHub action is that the author of the GitHub action needs to pick a name that doesn’t collide with the names of tools that any consumers have installed. So I guess you should just pick a long unique name?

Can you use :deps in the alias to replace the deps?

Yeah, that might be an option, I’ll take a look