The proposed solution here is to prevent installation of the package, which is a valid solution. You can still set it up if you want, but Alpine isn't going to

The proposed solution here is to prevent installation of the package, which is a valid solution. You can still set it up if you want, but Alpine isn't going to let you footgun yourself so easily. Homebrew does the same: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/3476ca7b8ff889ef61e65783d35d1b2073bd4012/Library/Homebrew/missing_formula.rb#L39 https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/3476ca7b8ff889ef61e657... Exclusions for compatibility and security reasons are not the same as "taking them down". It's linux after all.