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Should I give Arch a shot?
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I would try it in a VM first. But maybe you are braver than I.
When installed on another distribution in single-user mode it goes into its own directory and only activates when you run a script. It doesn't touch or interact with the main distributions beyond that. In multi-user install it installs a build daemon service, but that's all. It doesn't touch /usr, it's all done via $PATH and friends.