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Re:Void Linux: Into the Void by _emacsomancer_ on Sunday March 25, 2018 @01:28PM (#16673254)
Alpine is musl only; Void has both glibc and musl variants. Void seems more desktop-focussed than Alpine, and (at least as of a year ago) I didn't have a lot of luck with ZFS on Alpine.
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Re:Void Linux: Into the Void by zaarn on Monday March 26, 2018 @05:36AM (#16677704)
IIRC you can install glibc into Alpine when an application needs it but the packages are all musl.
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Re:Void Linux: Into the Void by _emacsomancer_ on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:08PM (#16694927)
A glibc chroot still seems to be the recommended method: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Running_glibc_programs
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Re:Void Linux: Into the Void by BlackLotus89 on Friday March 30, 2018 @02:35PM (#16718656)
Hehehe I wrote the original wiki entry (because someone on irc asked for something like that)

I think it's still the recommended way for dependency management reasons and missing glibc-packages. If you can get your program running with the alpine glibc you should probably do that

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