How to make a sane dev environement in atomic?

[jumpyvi]

Maybe use distrobox? https://github.com/elementary/os/tree/feat-toolboxes

It could be built in distrobox, then merged in the main system with sysext-utils

We could also put absolutely everything in elementary-sdk, this is what gnome-os does with gnome-devel (which is 2GB)

Based on @danirabbit question in the discord

[danirabbit]

We should probably put as much as we can foresee in the sdk to at least build all our own packages. I suppose third party devs will presumably always be using flatpak-builder so maybe that solves it?

[jumpyvi]

Could be the best (and easiest for devs).

Not sure how big the extension would be with every deps

[danirabbit]

I'm also wondering if there's an easy way to generate it with seeds instead of having to manually list every package

[jumpyvi]

Seems like ext-sdk will be the solution for OS dev.

With brew/podman also available for other type of dev