Depots can be installed either with all packages compiled from source, or all packages imported from pre-packaged binaries. There are cases (particularly where a depot may include atlas) that you may wish to import certain packages in a depot as a binary. Perhaps we could add an option to depot install that allows us to flag certain packages to be imported as a binary when the --compile option is provided, something along the lines of:
From @vlj91 on September 23, 2016 16:27
Depots can be installed either with all packages compiled from source, or all packages imported from pre-packaged binaries. There are cases (particularly where a depot may include
atlas) that you may wish to import certain packages in a depot as a binary. Perhaps we could add an option todepot installthat allows us to flag certain packages to be imported as a binary when the--compileoption is provided, something along the lines of:Bonus points for working the other way round (install all from binaries but compile certain packages).
Copied from original issue: alces-software/clusterware#204