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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers by Khaine on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @10:00AM (#9420435)
Some of this is self inflected.

Go look up how you install snort or bro on centos. You have to either install from source, or install from a rpm from there website which may or may not have issues. This means you lose dependency management, and update management. Pure madness

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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers by danielweber on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @11:19AM (#9421050)
Choose your method of death:

1. Run this totally opaque command which might DTRT, and might completely pwn your system.

2. Prepare for 4 hours of dependency hell.

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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers by contingencies on Thursday April 23, 2015 @01:34AM (#9425153)
Alternatively, learn Gentoo.
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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers by shanemhansen on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @10:22AM (#9420598)
I've decided that unless you're ok with running a very restricted set of ancient applications, don't even try to use CentOS. I've seen multiple billion dollar companies who can't seen to avoid f'ing up the yum repos on CentOS.

I'm not able to go full docker on my machines @work, but I do have some statically linked tarballs. There is a reason apps that deploy in hostile environments (skype, chrome, firefox) bundle most of their dependencies.

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