[Neurodebian-users] NeuroFedora packaging priorities

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2018, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:

> > well -- I am just trying not to preach for the sake of preaching...
> > Especially before singularity came about, there were no other sensible
> > way to "deploy neurodebian" with all awesome python things on HPC
> > running  CentOS.  So, ppl would use conda.  Also if you just want a more
> > rapidly moving  (and thus more frequently breaking) python ecosystem use
> > pip, want some more stability and reliability -- conda, ... but nothing
> > would compare if you want stability and reliability and "All software
> > made equal" - use Debian ;-) 

> TLDR; Debian may be awesome, but RHEL is also awesome ;-)

Sorry, I might be missing something -- does RHEL now provide a
rich set of neuroscience related python (and not only) packages?

> Well, well, well, I want in no way to diminish the value of what you are doing for the HPC folks, but back when I was still involved, I don’t remember having any problems with Python stuff even before conda and co.

> I just used gsrc (which is pretty crazy, but equally awesome... today I maybe would have  picked some nix-like stuff...

don't you need some kind of a root "daemon" to make use of
guix/nix ?


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