Re:PackagingCon – a conference only for software package man...
by chriswarbo on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @06:00AM
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No, I don't understand why this myth persists. Docker fetches tarballs, runs commands, and tars up directories. Often, Docker is used to run package management commands (e.g. `apt`, `dpkg`, `yum`, `cargo`, `mvn`, `nix`, `cabal`, `sbt`, `pip`, `npm`, `gradle`, `stack`, `guix`, etc.); the latter are the actual package managers.
Docker "solves" package management in the same way Bash scripts "solve" package management: you can use them to run actual package managers; but also, you probably shouldn't (e.g. Nix is better at creating Docker images than Docker is, for example).
Docker "solves" package management in the same way Bash scripts "solve" package management: you can use them to run actual package managers; but also, you probably shouldn't (e.g. Nix is better at creating Docker images than Docker is, for example).