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When you can't afford Arch Linux (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[-] nesc@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 days ago

Musl and stable is one worst word combinations there is. I still have nighmares from broken packages under alpine that worked just fine under normal distro. It took us like a week to find the problem. Bad times.

[-] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Alpine is an advanced user distro. I'm sure there are workarounds for the broken stuff.

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It's not their official policy, but my personal philosophy with alpine goes like this:

  1. If it doesn't work with musl/busybox, find an alternative that does
  2. If I can't find an alternative, then I patch it myself
  3. If I don't have the time/skill to patch it myself, then I throw it into a container that has glibc/gnu coreutils
this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2024
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