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It is indeed possible to make a nice container that contains a program, offers a clean interface to that program, and doesn’t package a whole pile of largely ir
by amluto 2y ago
It is indeed possible to make a nice container that contains a program, offers a clean interface to that program, and doesn’t package a whole pile of largely irrelevant, guaranteed-to-be-quickly-outdated crap with it.
But being possible doesn’t mean that anyone does it. Most containers I’ve ever seen are big messes. Possibly GPL-violating messes if the payload isn’t appropriately licensed. Certainly maintenance and provenance disasters. Unquestionably not reproducibly buildable and possibly not buildable at all.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago> and doesn’t package a whole pile of largely irrelevant, guaranteed-to-be-quickly-outdated crap with it. > Possibly GPL-violating messes if the payload isn’t appropriately licensed. Certainly maintenance and provenance disasters. Unquestionably not reproducibly buildable and possibly not buildable at all. If static binaries are on the table then none of these things can possibly be disqualifiers.