Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)
by lmm on Monday December 09, 2019 @06:51PM
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> 2) jealous, insisting that every OS and extra-linguistic dependency has to conform to their way of doing things
Not really. Language-specific package managers are usually capable of integrating with "system" dependencies from outside the language (certainly maven has decent support for this) - they kind of have to be after all.
> 3) fundamentally, not very good, particularly with regard to multiple versions of the same package (technically, OSGi could do that...), repeatable builds, and the desire for do-what-I-mean behavior.
Not really. Language-specific package managers are usually capable of integrating with "system" dependencies from outside the language (certainly maven has decent support for this) - they kind of have to be after all.
> 3) fundamentally, not very good, particularly with regard to multiple versions of the same package (technically, OSGi could do that...), repeatable builds, and the desire for do-what-I-mean behavior.
How so?