Re: User-installable Debian packages?
Hi Steffen,
Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de> writes:
> I just had a quick look and it seems really nice, indeed! Thank you tons for
> pointing that out to us. Has anybody already tried that with Debian?
I am one of a few guys behind that project. Gentoo Prefix with its own
libc runs on Debian very well, the explicity tested distributions are
listed at,
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Prefix/libc#Tested_distributions
The highlights are:
1. you can compile almost any package available in Gentoo.
2. you can run x86 Gentoo Prefix on a amd64 Debian, thus another form
of multiarch.
The downside compared to Debian and any binary distribution is that,
everything need to be compiled from source. That's slow.
A preliminary draft has been prepared to discuss its use on HPC
environments:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02742
Alternative projects are _spack_ and _easybuild_, with slightly
different motivations and implementations.
Cheers,
Benda
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