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> Gone is the need for the high quality package management of Debian: The Universal Operating System. Well, almost. What's inside your container, though? For a
by core-questions 6y ago
> Gone is the need for the high quality package management of Debian: The Universal Operating System.
Well, almost. What's inside your container, though? For anything of moderate complexity, my containers always end up having some apt-get or yum installation in them; it's not like I want to Dockerfile up the manual from-source install steps for every small package, nor do I expect to have perfect upstream Dockerfiles to FROM that include all the exact bits I need....
- gorgoiler 6y agoYes, but they are usually single task hosts. All the effort that maintainers put into keeping /etc tidy when multiple pieces of software are installed on the same host are for nought.
- toyg 6y agoSo you install exactly one package in each container...? I find it hard to believe. You wouldn’t be able to boot with a single package. Feels very much like saying “all the stuff I don’t (think I) need, is useless”.
- ryukafalz 6y agoNot to mention having stuff built for you for all sorts of different architectures. It generally doesn't matter if you're running x86, ARM, whatever if you're installing packages from Debian; by and large everything in the distro is packaged for every architecture and they generally just work.