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Absolutely true. Docker replaced .tar.gz and .rpm, not chroots. Most of the time the chroot functionality of Docker is a hindrance, not a feature. We need chr
by otabdeveloper4 5y ago
Absolutely true.
Docker replaced .tar.gz and .rpm, not chroots.
Most of the time the chroot functionality of Docker is a hindrance, not a feature. We need chroots because we still haven't figured out packaging properly.
(Maybe Nix will eventually solve this problem properly; some sort of docker-compose equivalent for managing systemd services is lacking at the moment.)
- catern 5y agoEr, just as a historical note, one of the primary uses of chroots was for packaging. Just like how Docker does it. That, in a sense, was even the original motivation. The security usage of chroots was a later innovation.