Hi Steffen, Steffen Möller <steffen_moel...@gmx.de> writes:
> I just had a quick look and it seems really nice, indeed! Thank you tons for > pointing that out to us. Has anybody already tried that with Debian? I am one of a few guys behind that project. Gentoo Prefix with its own libc runs on Debian very well, the explicity tested distributions are listed at, https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Prefix/libc#Tested_distributions The highlights are: 1. you can compile almost any package available in Gentoo. 2. you can run x86 Gentoo Prefix on a amd64 Debian, thus another form of multiarch. The downside compared to Debian and any binary distribution is that, everything need to be compiled from source. That's slow. A preliminary draft has been prepared to discuss its use on HPC environments: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02742 Alternative projects are _spack_ and _easybuild_, with slightly different motivations and implementations. Cheers, Benda
