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by BuckRogers 3999 days ago
Seems this method wouldn't work as well if you have external clients you deploy for. I'd use Docker instead of doing this, just to be in a better position for an internal or external client deployment.
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ytjohn 3999 days ago
If you took this a step further and set up a debian repo, then you could have your clients use that debian repo.

I'm looking to do something pretty similiar, but RPMs. I found rpmvenv that seems to work in the same fashion. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rpmvenv/0.3.1

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stephenr 3999 days ago
Exactly this.

If a company wants to use Docker that's their choice, but I don't think its at all reasonable to insist on or only support that environment as a software vendor. If it works on Debian, give me a .deb or even better an Apt Repo to use.

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stephenr 3999 days ago
Why? Saying it runs on Debian X is much more easy to facilitate by your end users than "requires docker"
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