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Use asdf for system packages #173

Closed agjohnson closed 1 year ago

agjohnson commented 1 year ago

We've talked about checking in the asdf configuration file for explicit version management of system dependencies in the past. This is a lightweight version of that that gives an explicit way to get started. Using asdf locally is out of the scope of documentation here, it's a system level dependency.

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agjohnson commented 1 year ago

When we talked about this one, @humitos raised issues about .tool-versions changing suddenly. This could be a problem, though with a repository configuration that uses NPM and Poetry, the system dependencies can change underneath without affecting the installed dependencies.

agjohnson commented 1 year ago

Yeah, I wish there was some concept of version selection like that in asdf. There are a few issues, like https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf/issues/352, that discuss some maybe options, but seems this feature was specifically ruled out.

At least with poetry abstracting the Python version a little, it's mostly just wasting the space for each Python core installation, but even a bare installation is about 250MB per install :/