[GRASS-user] Install GRASS stable and experimental in parallel

[Moritz Lennert]

On 13/03/18 09:30, Stefan Blumentrath wrote:
> Hi Moritz,
> 
> (warming this post up again ...).
> 
> I see your point!
> And I am aware, that dependencies might be changed in development versions. QGIS has some nightly builds e.g. with ubuntugis dependencies.
> 
> Maybe snap could be useful? There does not seem to be a snap for GRASS yet:
> https://snapcraft.io/search?q=grass
> 
> If you guys think this is of interest, I could have a look at it in Bonn (and maybe join forces with QGIS project if the relevant people for the QGIS snap [1,2] are in Bonn too).

I didn't know snap, but somehow, I have the feeling that with Docker, 
snap, etc we are going back to a world where each software package 
installs each of its dependencies separately, leading to the same 
library being installed multiple times on one machine. I guess cheap 
disk space and containerization makes this a bit less of a problem, but 
it still just does not feel right when you come from the beautiful world 
of coordinated packaging in Debian and others distros.

:-)

Moritz