Running local tools installed by Bazel
It's a common pattern that developers in your repo are expected to run some command-line tools as part of interacting with the code. For example, maybe they need to run terraform plan when working with Terraform files.
However, it's a non-stop hassle...
blog.aspect.build4 min read
Florian Berchtold
With a recent update to the aspect bazelrc (github.com/aspect-build/aspect-cli/blob/1e6308b7b1799c1b8716630efad35629aabe9d36/.aspect/bazelrc/performance.bazelrc#L23), I think it makes sense to add a remark to always have the build with --build_runfile_links to avoid running without runfiles (py_binary being one example)