Use case: multi-user environment e.g. university computer rooms with less wasted space due to file duplication.

[bjornregnell]

At Lund University we have as multi-user linux environment based on desktop Ubuntu, where any user with a student account can log in to any machine (~200 desktop work stations) and some disks are mounted with centralized files to keep file duplication low.

scala-cli is primarily designed for a local single-user use case, but I'd like to ask and discuss if there could be some configuration to scala-cli when installing it in a multi-user environment to avoid too much file duplication on local user's directories in favor of using centralized disk space, e.g. by configuring where caches of immutable downloads and the like are placed. This would make scala-cli more attractive to sysadmins at universities...

Could this become in-scope of scala-cli at some point without too much work? @romanowski @alexarchambault

If you want, and if this idea is at all feasible, I can try to elicit some wishes/needs/hygiene-features from our sysadmin IT dept at Lund Univ, as basis for this discussion?