> Is this tool not an additional dependency? "Dependency" generally means "external dependency". It's only a dependency if your solution's build process fetch

> Is this tool not an additional dependency? "Dependency" generally means "external dependency". It's only a dependency if your solution's build process fetches it from its upstream repo. (Or worse: it's just mentioned in some manual build instructions as one of the things your solution needs.) This is small enough to copy into the source tree of your solution, in which case it's no longer a dependency.