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by bheadmaster 5y ago
> I think one area where Free Software has failed so far is build systems GNU Autotools (also known as GNU Build System) is fairly standardized in the GNU world. The build process for most GNU packages is simple: ./configure
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by bheadmaster 5y ago
I think it's important to always remember it's not the computers that are trying to tell us what to do, it's the people who build those computers and the software running on them that are trying to tell us what to do. Com
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by bheadmaster 5y ago
Thanks, this is much simpler than the original post. Here's the equivalent Dockerfile + docker-compose.yaml for convenience: # Dockerfile FROM debian:11-slim RUN apt-get -y update && apt-get -y install firefox-esr
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by bheadmaster 5y ago
A GitHub issue is not equivalent to a direct message to the developer. Other people can see GitHub issues/feature requests, and sometimes, one of them steps up and does the legwork of fixing/implementing the thing. > But I don&
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by bheadmaster 5y ago
In that case, it's better to just pin the major version of the container: FROM python:3 will work as long as Python3 doesn't make any backwards incompatible changes (note: Python3 occasionally deprecates then removes a fe
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by bheadmaster 5y ago
The referenced part, for anyone interested: Aleksei Snegov [...] told us that when Stalin's desk was being moved from his former study, they accidentally came across five letters addressed to him that he had hidden under a layer of
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by bheadmaster 5y ago
>If it's backwards incompatible, it's basically a new library under the same name and development team. This, this, and a hundred more times this. Incompatible is incompatible. There is no "kinda incompatible", "