Scanning one package is one thing, but distributing what are essentially entire disk images for a functioning OS plus whatever software you’re after just never

Scanning one package is one thing, but distributing what are essentially entire disk images for a functioning OS plus whatever software you’re after just never seemed appealing to me. It’s doubly laughable when it’s Java or something else with its own VM, because for some reason we never have enough abstractions. I did like the idea of running an OS that is a purpose-built container host, and containers that are stripped as bare as possible, until I thought about it more and realized that that’s supposed to be what a normal OS does with normal software. Zones and jails and cgroups and LX(C|D) were good ideas that we needn’t have reinvented on top.