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reidrac on July 1, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Docker: Not Even a Linker

Then how can be that an incentive for Docker's adoption? Honest question; if, as you say, this is a solved problem thanks to package managers.

I can't even remember the last time I had a real dependency problem deploying an application (using Debian; and CentOS before that), other than myself not doing things right (read: installing RPMs I found online and I shouldn't install).

fapjacks on July 1, 2015 [–]

Well I wasn't originally speaking wrt Docker, but Docker doesn't magically lose all the hard work done by package managers. You have total access to them in your containers.

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