Since this is for friends, and if the friends are willing to learn, I'd recommend you try teaching them how to install the modules for your script, they learn a new skill while you get to practice explaining technical stuff to nontechnical people. If you one day want to allow others to use these scripts or the scripts are small and only do basic stuff, then you may want to make it all inclusive.

"Pain is weakness leaving the body, I find myself in pain everyday" -me