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Slix - User-space package manager

Warnung: Currently, in a very early stage, not ready for real usage.

A user-space package manager. The main focus is to create reproducible environments with small of space overhead.

Some tools which can be used to achieve similar goals:

  • conda - A user-space package manager. Allows mulitple environments.
  • Homebrew - A user-space package manager.
  • pip with python venv - Environments for tools installable via pip.
  • nix - A package-manager. Allows to create multiple environments. Highly reproducible. Multiuser support.
  • containers like docker or buildah - Usable with different package distributions, isolation of filesystem, network stack and much more.
  • divenv - Per directory environment variables