Comment by vindex10

it was also my first thought on abstractions of abstractions, thanks for sharing :)

could you elaborate a bit more on why HPC world is special when it comes to configuring the environment?

I always feel it is a typical problem in software development, to separate operating system env from the application env.

do you use spack / easybuild on your personal computer, for example if you need to install a package that is not part of the distribution?