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How to get Common Lisp libraries (not Quicklisp)

1 2021-09-27 12:17

If I am not using Quicklisp, how should I get Common Lisp libraries?
I avoid Quicklisp because my concerns are similar to:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13097333

At the moment, I am using the libraries that are available in the Ubuntu
repositories (Ubuntu is the OS I use). However, there are only about 150
libraries available this way (although all the popular ones are available).
In comparison, Quicklisp has about 2000 libraries. The obvious alternative is to
manually download libraries, but this is difficult if the library has lots of
dependencies. Perhaps I should look into the GNU Guix package manager, which has
nearly 500 Common Lisp libraries.

Any suggestions on what I should do?

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