[KolenCh]

Oh, wow. Glad I asked. I thought you mean port but while they are related it is something I’ve never heard of.

Brew has transitioned into primarily bottled (pre-compiled binary). Compiling with the local march sounds great and it is quite difficult to find one consistently do that. On top of that, I’m trying to look for one that can be installed on arbitrary prefix too and recently I’ve been eyeing on pkgsrc, gentoo prefix, and spack.

[tgamblin]

Spack doesn't require any particular prefix... it has a deployment model like nix, and the store can go anywhere. Binary caches are relocatable.