Install `jj` in the default sprites image

Hello,

I know I can install whatever I like in a sprite, but it would be great if the latest stable jj were available out of the box. I tried to install it and everything kinda fell over and I gave up for the day last time, but also, I want to start using sprites so that’s not a tenable strategy here.

Happy to open a PR, and tbh also happy to keep jj updated (they release once a month, it’s trivial). A huge amount of my workflow depends on it, and Claude and co are very confused when it’s not available. Also I’m a long-time customer and I think you’re great and tell people that all the time, which I think counts for a lot.

I wonder if this will be the answer: install what you want in a sprite, then clone your sprite when you want a new one:

We’re not really planning to add things to the base image. Specifically, jj is too niche to be included.

As halfer says, we are planning to implement sprite forking/cloning, which will hopefully address this.

In the meantime, what issues were you having installing things on a sprite? In general, all of us using it just tell Claude to install whatever tools are missing and have not really had a problem with that approach - Claude at worst fumbles for a bit before figuring things out.

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