There are even more exciting libs like numpy/scipy which rely on a system BLAS package before they can even compile (and take forever). This is a problem that U

There are even more exciting libs like numpy/scipy which rely on a system BLAS package before they can even compile (and take forever). This is a problem that Ubuntu has made less difficult but a better solution would be package managers for C and fortran. If the 'alpine experiment' results in more work on portable build tools for complex projects, that's a win for the open source community.