Hey all,

When you are doing modifications and dev work, do you keep your systems lean in terms of packages? Say you wanted to build a package from source, do you install its dependencies for this build, or was it already installed from a previous build? Do you have another machine that you do the builds on and then transfer the binaries across?

I currently have a persistent docker container that I use that is base ubuntu 16.04 for just this reason. It bind-mounts my projects folder and I do all my compiling/building of sources from here, but do all the coding from my main machine. As my config files are all on the host. This way when I do my updates, it's not clogged up with dev libraries and tools and things.

Anyone else have anything similar they do or any tips?