Fixtures without name matching magic

I've been happily using pytest for several projects for the past few years.

There's one part about pytest that I still struggle to get behind: The way that fixtures magically match argument names to fixtures -- and apparently I'm not alone in this feeling. I would much rather declare dependencies explicitly in some way using code. I know this would be more verbose, but that's a tradeoff I'm happy to make.

Is it possible to do this in some way with pytest today? If not, would you be open to adding an optional feature for this?

I was thinking perhaps something like the following, using an example adapted from the docs:

import pytest

@pytest.fixture
def smtp_connection():
    import smtplib
    return smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587, timeout=5)

@pytest.use_fixture(smtp_connection)
def test_ehlo(connection):
    response, msg = connection.ehlo()
    assert response == 250
    assert 0 # for demo purposes

Start by reviewing the linked pytest fixture documentation and the 103-comment discussion to determine whether explicit fixture dependencies are supported or agreed upon. Compare the proposed @pytest.use_fixture(smtp_connection) example with current pytest behavior; done would require a settled optional API design and an accepted implementation plan.