Projects that don't use the GUI parts of apptools are still required to install traitsui if they want to have an environment where all the dependencies are met:
09:56 $ edm install apptools
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The following packages will be installed:
apptools 4.4.0-4 787 KiB
configobj 5.0.6-2 70 KiB
pyface 5.1.0-5 1.5 MiB
pygments 2.1.3-1 1.73 MiB
six 1.10.0-1 19 KiB
traits 4.6.0-1 636 KiB
traitsui 5.1.0-2 1.5 MiB
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Projects that don't use the GUI parts of apptools are still required to install traitsui if they want to have an environment where all the dependencies are met: