Re: concurrent installation of different pkg versions

[Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org>]

On 2014-04-27 20:50:38 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote:
[...]
> Containers would be a better environment, but you have to make
> them very, very simple to set up.
[...]

An academic librarian friend of mine has been working with the
various departments at his institution to start producing and
archiving virtual machine images preconfigured for running the
software used to generate results corresponding to various
publications, so that they can later be cloned, booted and results
reverified in the original environments and conditions. Admittedly
this means lots of additional storage, but it does offer an easy way
out of that particular dilemma (assuming the bitrot isn't so bad
that nobody can find virtualization software capable of booting them
successfully in the future).
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