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I am of the camp that very little software should be installed globally. Instead I make use of a precocious and large ~/bin and other things in my less privileg
by calvinmorrison 4y ago
I am of the camp that very little software should be installed globally. Instead I make use of a precocious and large ~/bin and other things in my less privileged user directories
- epistasis 4y agoI've gone as far as to keep an ~/opt that has bin/, man/, lib/, src/, etc. underneath it, and when I can use --prefix on the configure script. Udocker and singularity (the containerization toolset) also help a ton too. Docker's root requirements make it unsuitable for lots and lots of situations where it would otherwise be useful.