Does rye expose the uv installation that it uses?

[nikhilweee]

I have configured rye to use the uv under the hood. I see that there's a uv folder located inside ~/.rye. Is there a way to use this installation of uv? Is it even recommended to do so? The reason I ask is that if uv comes preinstalled with rye, it would save the user from installing uv separately.

My particular use case is that I want some packages in my venv but not in pyproject.toml, so I do a uv pip install <package> instead of rye add <package>. Right now I have to install uv separately if I intend to do so.

[bluss]

It sounds like a use case for dev-dependencies, is that something you could use?

It seems like formally rye does not expose its uv installation. You could install it separately using "rye tools install".