For large, mutli-tenant environments, deploying CLI tools via and RPM is more maintainable than a global pip install across multiple nodes. This is also how singularity itself is distributed. So, getting some kind of RPM, or at least a specfile, from upstream would be nice. Is this something someone has considered before?

There is one caveat I can think of, which is the multiple optional dependencies against various backends (dropbox, google, shub, etc). Not sure what the best way to do that is.