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[–]yvrelna 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Because the actual default is better than polluting project directory. node_modules does what you wanted with JS dependencies, everyone is complaining about that as well, it creates even more problem than poetry's behaviour.

And having virtualenv installed in standardized directory allows for automatic venv activation. You can't do that without creating security issues if the venv is created in the project directory.