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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by buzzkillington on Monday December 09, 2019 @06:11AM (#21741732)
>Unfortunately, the build process for these packages is currently of a disastrous quality, and should only be attempted within disposable virtual machines, as it requires root permissions and will install non-packaged software.

https://wiki.debian.org/Hadoop

If Debian, a distro on the lower side of dramatic, calls it disastrous, it's pretty bad.

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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by regularfry on Monday December 09, 2019 @06:38AM (#21741847)
Debian is (mostly) low on the drama, but high on the expected package quality. It's not surprising they'd have problems here.
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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by quicksilver03 on Monday December 09, 2019 @03:39PM (#21746281)
I couldn't disagree more, by looking at how badly Debian dares to diverge on basic packages such as Apache, nginx and exim it's clear to me that they don't care at all about quality.
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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by regularfry on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @05:41AM (#21751326)
Divergence from the upstream isn't a marker for or against quality, as Debian chooses to define it.
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