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Functional package managers solve the same problems, but do it better and come with additional features like unprivileged package management, transactional upgr
by davexunit 10y ago
Functional package managers solve the same problems, but do it better and come with additional features like unprivileged package management, transactional upgrades and rollbacks, and bit-reproducible builds.
- dorfsmay 10y agoNotice I said "one way". I wanted to counter the arguments that writing better software remove the need for something like docker. Are talking about something like NIX? How do you handle other type of installs such as python pip?
- alistproducer2 10y agoIn your opinion, how is this superior to just building a container? Also, could such a package manager be used to deploy to clusters? I'm not being facetious, I'm trying to understand your rationale for using a PM over Docker for similar use cases.