don't theme our apps or distribute our bottles
what a depressing direction for FOSS to go
@cwebber huh, what's the context?
@cwebber thanks for the warning, I'll steer clear of those applications.
Oh, wait, I'm on KDE, and so I am already unlikely to use them. Win!
@cwebber also:
Stop Writing Apps That Go Out Of Their Way To Be Obnoxiously Difficult To Theme And Package
(apps are not websites; npm is not a model to follow and replicate)
@doofus_canadensis @mmu_man @cwebber as a sysadmin I do find docker useful, as I can *very precisely* set in stone specific versions of libraries and dependencies and create a *very reproducible* deployment.
Which means if there are bugs, at least I don't have to cycle through a bunch of versions of dependencies. I *know* what's in that affected image. And I can pin-point the problem.
But that's a very specific use-case.
Controversial opinion
Controversial opinion
@xorowl @rysiek @cwebber it depends.
For example, the other day I wanted to install something, and the docker-compose had a postgres container, with the env entry POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD: trust … except I searched for two hours how to get do that in the manual install (appending "host all all all trust" to the config file didn't work since it must come first).
@mmu_man @rysiek @cwebber Seems more like a cautionary tale to me.