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| -rw-r--r-- | etc/spack/defaults/config.yaml | 5 |
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diff --git a/etc/spack/defaults/config.yaml b/etc/spack/defaults/config.yaml index f42a6525e2..535187a739 100644 --- a/etc/spack/defaults/config.yaml +++ b/etc/spack/defaults/config.yaml @@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ config: # are that it precludes its use as a system package and its ability to be # pip installable. # + # In Spack environment files, chaining onto existing system Spack + # installations, the $env variable can be used to download, cache and build + # into user-writable paths that are relative to the currently active + # environment. + # # In any case, if the username is not already in the path, Spack will append # the value of `$user` in an attempt to avoid potential conflicts between # users in shared temporary spaces. |