Telcon: 2022 02 09

(Peter) Externals cut off dependencies: https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/9149#issuecomment-1020740273
(Peter) Deptype for running tests after a build
- See also: https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/3768#issuecomment-293046651
Possible continuation from https://github.com/spack/spack/wiki/Telcon%3A-2022-01-26: vendored dependencies
- (Andrew) nvhpc installs CUDA, so which CUDA is being used if I install nvhpc with Spack?
- (Wileam) Should nvhpc be modularized like oneAPI? This would partially solve the embedded CUDA issue, I think
Possible topic: Separating package repository from core
- There are some larger changes we plan which mean we can't do this immediately
- But we could record what is in the way and how to manage this transition
Possible topic: new concretizer and handling of merged package repositories
- See also: https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/28260

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