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Documentation: Add installation policy to packaging guide (#34878)

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Tamara Dahlgren
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@@ -34,6 +34,15 @@ ubiquitous in the scientific software community. Second, it's a modern
language and has many powerful features to help make package writing
easy.
.. warning::
As a general rule, packages should install the software *from source*.
The only exception is for proprietary software (e.g., vendor compilers).
If a special build system needs to be added in order to support building
a package from source, then the associated code and recipe need to be added
first.
.. _installation_procedure: