> breeds a load of ignorant and lazy "sysadmins" I think that what is happening here in the hosting sphere is the same thing that happened in the OS/user space

> breeds a load of ignorant and lazy "sysadmins" I think that what is happening here in the hosting sphere is the same thing that happened in the OS/user space, inasmuch as packaging has become the solution to solving the layers of abstraction. Todays .ipa archive is yesterdays .app bundle, was last centuries filesystem-containing standalone .exe, is todays 'one dock fits all' deployable-application solution. Whereas in systems past the user was required to absorb a cognitive load of abstraction ("C:\DOS"), yet today we have far friendly flick and execute interfaces, the same is true of sysadmin abstractions becoming less and less significant and more and more point and click. Yesterdays 'tar xvf somesources.tar.gz && cd somesources && ./configure && make install' is todays 'docker run -i -t someapp', and so on .. But yet, we still must face the quandry that the more these abstractions become compartmentalized, the more we can just pile new crap on top and end up with new abstractions requiring eventual compartmentalization, ad infi...