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by riffraff 3733 days ago
the problem with relying on chroot is that (AFAIK) it might not be available on all platforms supported by the language-specific package managers.
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arianvanp 3733 days ago
The new Docker runs on Microsoft Hyper-V and on Mac's equivalent. So that would actually be a solution.
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riffraff 3733 days ago
in a very restricted sense maybe, but for example perl's CPAN also supports stuff like HP-UX, AIX, z/OS, NonStop and OS/400[0].

[0] http://www.cpan.org/ports/

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