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by tehwalrus 4618 days ago
I'm not sure to what extent this works with brew, but you could try using virtualenv to manage different environments?

I've never had to deal with multiple configurations on the same mac (my solution, off hand, would be to use debian VMs, possibly through SSH rather than a desktop GUI if I needed >1 at a time.)
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Osmium 4618 days ago
Yeah, I'm thinking about going down the VM route with Ubuntu Server inside Parallels. Seems a bit of a waste of computing resources though.
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tehwalrus 4618 days ago
virtualbox is free! And fine for the purposes of running scientific software.

EDIT: and in terms of resource usage, RAM is cheaper than headaches.

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