How Daniel Robbins turned a frustration with binary packages into a source-based meta-distribution, gave Linux the USE flag, and accidentally founded an optimization culture that outlived its own benchmarks — and why "compile everything from source" still wins in the corners where it wins.
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Spack and EasyBuild: Reproducible HPC Software Stacks Without Losing Your Sanity Reproducible HPC software stacks with Spack and EasyBuild — treating every build as a versioned recipe that resolves dependencies and generates coherent module trees, so your cluster's software doesn't become an unrepeatable mess.