We've had utilities for collecting entire Python runtime and its dependencies since before the turn of the century, but no effective way to compose layered virtual environments.
Even tools that leverage hard links to avoid duplication of packages do not fully solve the problem of sharing complex libraries across applications.
Platform-specific solutions like Linux container images exist, yet lack a convenient dependency management system for sharing large Python libraries effectively.
The gap in the Python packaging ecosystem remains as we still don't have a systematic way to decompose Python applications into independently updatable subcomponents.
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