Dear Easybuilder, I'm fairly new to easybuild and have just built several packages using the --try-* options or even adapted easyconfigs. It's a very handy way for installing software, thanks for that! Beyond that I had a look at the different module naming schemes and ended up with using the categorized nms.
I'm a bit surprised about the amount of modules I end up with when installing for example GCC or Netcdf. We did manual installs before and used System Libs a lot. Now, every lib ends up being a module and on my first impression this pollutes the module list. I saw the option hide-deps and filter-deps. Using those would remove some of those libs of course but as far as I can see it would also take a way some of the "automagic" since I'd have to specify the options for every install. I would like to ask for some hints of experienced easybuild users. How are you handling the dependent modules? Are they usually hidden-modules or do the users see all the dependencies in their module environment? Best regards, Andreas
