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What is automatic about docker? Do you mean other people have already put in the work? Or do you mean that it's more trivial to pip/npm/cargo install stuff?
by georgyo 3y ago
What is automatic about docker? Do you mean other people have already put in the work? Or do you mean that it's more trivial to pip/npm/cargo install stuff?
- pluto_modadic 3y agoNix as package management, yes - you're waiting on someone else to make upstream work. Where Debian/PIP/NPM/Cargo already do work. Nix as an instruction set, no, you still have to declare what you want, same as a dockerfile. it's just... Docker will do what a shell script will. Nix is like hoping someone's done the upstream finagling to get your particular dependencies happy.
- ildjarn 3y agoIf something works in a distro, it automatically works in a Dockerfile based on that distro. There is no extra packaging effort required.