Of course, now you need to deal with docker itself updating constantly, and the client not being able to talk to the server if they're updated more than 3 months apart.
Or just use rkt and don't worry about it. The CoreOS team takes api stability pretty seriously.
> until we write all our applications as some sort of crazy monad
Desktop Linux seems to be finally moving towards self-contained formats like AppImage and Flatpak. They are clearly not oriented towards server apps, but who knows.
OMG. Self contained apps were there starting from Linux 0.1. They are reinvented every second year.
Yeah but they never got traction for this or that reason. This time it looks like several big players actually agree on a common way forward. I guess time will tell.
>It's what happens with any rolling release distro given enough time.
Not really, the KISS nature of arch means that stuff that could be automated isn't because reasons, while systemd gets a special pass.
Now we have docker. Probably not solved until we write all our applications as some sort of crazy monad to minimize maintenance pain. I think docker is a meaningful step toward that.