On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 18:26:04 +0300 IL Ka <kazakevichi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the explanation. But I guess that the Windows style is > > becoming increasingly common in the Linux world as well, > > You mean "side by side", right? I meant the habit of including all an application's dependencies in its installation packaging, as with Docker / Flatpak / Snap. > I agree. Some developers took another approach and compiled all their code > statically. > AFAIK "Go" language does it by default, so all libraries are simply > "packed" to the one big binary file > that depends on kernel ABI only. Yes, I recently read a rant about this from the Gentoo people: https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2021/02/19/the-modern-packagers-security-nightmare/ h/t: https://www.osnews.com/story/133066/the-modern-packagers-security-nightmare/ > with the rise > > of Docker, Flatpak, Snap, etc. (as another poster in this thread > > mentioned). And these are not just for those who don't understand the > > value of using the repositories: lately I've been encountering quite a > > few popular and useful applications (e.g., Nextcloud (server), Jitsi, > > Caddy, Traefik) that for whatever reason (upstream doesn't maintain a > > sufficiently stable version, etc.) are not packaged for Debian, and > > going the Docker / Flatpak / Snap route is quite tempting. > > > > Yes, this reason is very common: I need "Python 3.9", but stable Debian > doesn't have it. > So, I have to use Docker. > > There is even a Linux distro that doesn't have anything except bare core > OS: "Core OS" And Ubuntu is apparently going in that direction, although I don't know how far they plan to go: https://www.howtogeek.com/670084/what-you-need-to-know-about-snaps-on-ubuntu-20.04/ Celejar
