Open source tooling in High-Energy Physics Software

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Covers the open-source ecosystem used in particle physics, naming Geant4, ROOT, CVMFS, Indico and the Scikit-HEP Python tools as core components, and explains the dependency and build complexity of modern experiment software stacks. Describes using the Spack package manager to manage dependencies and simplify building and deploying these complex stacks.

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