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PEP723: Using `--system-site-packages`

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#1,963 opened on Apr 28, 2025

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good first issueneeds investigation

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Description

This may be more general issue, but how would we define that we want the venv to have --system-site-packages passed? For hatch frontend, maybe the closest would be to add

[tool.hatch.envs.default]
system-site-packages = true

and similarly for each frontend? Would adding that be accounted for in hatch run?

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Examine Hatch's environment configuration code to add a system site packages boolean option, similar to how other options like 'python' are implemented. Check the documentation and codebase for environment settings.
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