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Guessing that this is the result of years (or decades?) of incremental changes maintaining backwards compatibility.
by Everdred2dx 2y ago
Guessing that this is the result of years (or decades?) of incremental changes maintaining backwards compatibility.
- elcritch 2y agoI wouldn’t agree that it’s overly complicated. Compare it to the Docker/OCI container format with multiple layers of tarballs and complicated manifest.json files. The deb format appears much simpler.
- Timber-6539 2y agoDocker is just like Debian in this instance. It would give you a base system from where you create the package using the same exact steps.