If you're still interested, the isVisible() hook has been merged. An example on how to use it can be found at https://github.com/TACC/Lmod/pull/276/files
You can dynamically hide a module based on any criteria of your desire, time, toolchain version, ... Ward On 07-04-17 14:32, Alan O'Cais wrote: > Funnily enough, there's a PR for Lmod that suits exactly your use case: > https://github.com/TACC/Lmod/pull/248 > <https://github.com/TACC/Lmod/pull/248> > > On 7 Apr 2017 3:05 pm, "Andreas Hilboll" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi all, > > when I started using EasyBuild, I didn't know about the option to hide > modules. Slowly, the list of installed modules becomes too long for > `module avail` to be useful for the user. So I would like to hide > modules. The question is, how should I do this? > > 1. Re-generate all modules (can I use EasyBuild to regenerate modules, > hiding them if I want to, without recompiling the code?) > > 2. Manually hide modules (probably a bad idea) > > 3. ??? > > It would be nice to have a best-practices document somewhere, but I > couldn't find any. [*] > > Also, from what I understand, using minimal toolchains is generally a > good idea to keep the number of modules low -- correct? > > I'd appreciate any guidance on how I can clean up my installation. > > Cheers, > Andreas. > > PS: I'm using lmod > > [*] I'd be happy to write a blog post from a non-expert's perspective > (I'm no sysadmin, and our cluster is rather smallish, almost no > technical staff to maintain the software). > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH > 52425 Juelich > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich > Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 > Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher > Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Marquardt (Vorsitzender), > Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, > Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >
