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Please tell me more about the conflicts.

I have only occasionally had Python scripts broke because of dependencies, but not since the introduction of virtualenv.

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Docker is to the Linux OS as virtualenv is to Python.

But Linux doesn't have this problem. Paths to loadable modules are given in the application configuration, and dynamic libraries have versioned file names. On top of that you can give a path to the dynamic linker. So that doesn't really make sense.

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