# Sharing environments when using dev packages

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/sharing-environments-when-using-dev-packages/16334>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [October 15, 2018, 6:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/sharing-environments-when-using-dev-packages/16334 "2018-10-15T06:14:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![j605](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/j605/32/2130_2.png) [@j605](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/j605)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 6:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/sharing-environments-when-using-dev-packages/16334/1 "2018-10-15T06:14:47Z")

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I am using an environment that needs `MAT.jl` so I had to install it as a dev package with some fixes to make it work with 1.0. I want to share that environment with my laptop. But there is an issue where `Pkg3` seems to hard code the dev package location so I am not able use it seamlessly. On the server `JULIA_PKG_DEPOT` is different to that of my laptop so one needs to use dev each time when switching systems. Is there an easier way to use dev packages?

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**Author:** ![fredrikekre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fredrikekre/32/1688_2.png) [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 6:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/sharing-environments-when-using-dev-packages/16334/2 "2018-10-15T06:26:10Z")

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Push your changes to a branch and then `add` the branch instead of using `dev`.