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by misnome 2689 days ago
It’s very useful when on a remote login where you don’t have root but want more modern software e.g. academic HPC clusters with shared filesystems, which tend to have extremely “conservative” OS versions (we are stuck on RHEL6 for the forseeable future).

I’m not aware of much else that fulfills this niche well - conda seems very very tied to precisely tested version combinations, and (from what I remember - tried and had problems) nix seems to want root/system level daemons.
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kalefranz 2689 days ago
> conda seems very very tied to precisely tested version combinations, and (from what I remember - tried and had problems)

Hello. Conda core contributor here. Do you have any more details? Would love to help.

We try to keep version constraints among dependencies as loose as possible. We do actively patch dependency metadata over time, putting upper version bounds on dependencies when incompatibilities eventually arise.

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messe 2689 days ago
pkgsrc[1] is portable to most Unix(-like) systems, and can run as a non-privileged user, so that would likely work as well. I'd trust it more than homebrew anyway.

[1]: http://pkgsrc.org/

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devzer0 2683 days ago
> I'd trust it more than homebrew anyway.

I'm curious why you feel this way.

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