Tools not running from snapshots should use /.packages

sdk/bin/dartanalyzer.bat

 @echo off
 REM Copyright (c) 2013, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 REM for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 REM BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 setlocal
 rem Handle the case where dart-sdk/bin has been symlinked to.
 set DIR_NAME_WITH_SLASH=%~dp0
 set DIR_NAME=%DIR_NAME_WITH_SLASH:~0,-1%%
 call :follow_links "%DIR_NAME%", RETURNED_BIN_DIR
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 )
 
 rem Get absolute full name for DART_ROOT.
 for %%i in ("%SDK_DIR%\..\") do set DART_ROOT=%%~fi
 
 rem Remove trailing backslash if there is one
 if %DART_ROOT:~-1%==\ set DART_ROOT=%DART_ROOT:~0,-1%
 
 set ANALYZER=%DART_ROOT%\pkg\analyzer_cli\bin\analyzer.dart
 
-"%DART%" %EXTRA_VM_OPTIONS% "%ANALYZER%" "%SDK_ARG%" %*
+"%DART%" "--packages=%DART_ROOT%\.packages" %EXTRA_VM_OPTIONS% "%ANALYZER%" "%SDK_ARG%" %*
 
 endlocal
 
 exit /b %errorlevel%
 
 rem Follow the symbolic links (junctions points) using `dir to determine the
 rem canonical path. Output with a link looks something like this
 rem
 rem 01/03/2013  10:11 PM    <JUNCTION>     abc def
 rem [c:\dart_bleeding\dart-repo.9\dart\out\ReleaseIA32\dart-sdk]
 rem
 rem So in the output of 'dir /a:l "targetdir"' we are looking for a filename
 rem surrounded by right angle bracket and left square bracket. Once we get
 rem the filename, which is name of the link, we recursively follow that.
 :follow_links
 setlocal
 for %%i in (%1) do set result=%%~fi
 set current=
 for /f "usebackq tokens=2 delims=[]" %%i in (`dir /a:l "%~dp1" 2^>nul ^
                                              ^| %SystemRoot%\System32\find.exe ">     %~n1 ["`) do (
   set current=%%i
 )
 if not "%current%"=="" call :follow_links "%current%", result
 endlocal & set %~2=%result%
 goto :eof
 
 :end