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It's possible to use docker as a package manager. I worked jobs where did exactly that, because we needed to compile certain dependencies for our application, a
by coderenegade 2y ago
It's possible to use docker as a package manager. I worked jobs where did exactly that, because we needed to compile certain dependencies for our application, and it streamlined the whole process.
There's zero reason you couldn't create a small abstraction layer around docker so you can install "executables" that are really just launching within a container. I mean, isn't that the whole idea behind flatpak, snaps, and appimages?
The point is to leverage modern abstraction techniques so that people don't need to learn a new system.
- tmzt 2y agoThis could be done using something like llamafile, in the sense that it would be a small universal executable containing a package. It could even support running as a self contained application on Windows, with all needed DLLs provided.