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Half an year on Alpine: just musl aside
Warning: Contains tongue-in-cheek language that might feel provocative if you have invested part of your identity into y…
I’d rather have a simpler tool tackling initialization and shutdown, and have learned to compose the operating system with various programs that fill in for systemd’s vast feature set. So, prompted by a charger dying in the beginning of this year, which put a machine out of work, I decided to take the opportunity to try another system with a slower release cycle and started weighing my options. There may be the expectation that the whole repository at any given time is the end state for all machines subscribed to it, but if dependencies could also be at the version and not only package level, that could also be solved, though I won’t undersell the consequences and added complexity in such a change.
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