As @marguedas mentioned before the isolated option should only change the location of installed files and only add a couple of scripts for each package. Please provide more information about the result of your comparison.
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As @marguedas mentioned before the isolated option should only change the location of installed files and only add a couple of scripts for each package. Please provide more information about the result of your comparison.