Description

Currently UV is included in the main dependency list of Opentitan1. This causes any projects that depend on Opentitan to also pull down the UV version. As a result, if a user of a downstream dependency that uses UV is in a virtual environment and then tries to invoke UV, they will get the UV from Opentitan rather than the one in their environment, which could be externally managed. There are also some other things, like linters, which don't have to be core dependencies.

Frankly I don't see the point in pinning uv in the pyproject.toml as you presumably require using UV to parse it in the first place, but if you must it would be a better fit for a dev dependency2. For example:

[dependency-groups]
dev = [
    "uv ~= 0.7.14",
    # Any other dependencies you want (e.g. your linters)
]

All that being said I'm not very familiar with OpenTitan's Python development methodologies so if this is necessary I apologize for the noise, but as a downstream consumer a solution would be much appreciated :).

I'm happy to handle making the changes if a solution can be agreed upon. Thanks!

CC @sameo