For the trivia, this is pushed by Laurent Bercot (skarnet), creator of s6, execline and many others. He's also working on implementing s6 as Alpine init and rc systems. https://skarnet.org/software/s6/ https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html
They're really still going through with that? I didn't expect I'd have to find another distro so soon.
Alpine Linux is reducing dependencies on Busybox
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#12Re: Alpine Linux is reducing dependencies on Busybox
#13For the trivia, this is pushed by Laurent Bercot (skarnet), creator of s6, execline and many others. He's also working on implementing s6 as Alpine init and rc systems. https://skarnet.org/software/s6/ https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html
They're really still going through with that? I didn't expect I'd have to find another distro so soon.
Re: Alpine Linux is reducing dependencies on Busybox
#14For the trivia, this is pushed by Laurent Bercot (skarnet), creator of s6, execline and many others. He's also working on implementing s6 as Alpine init and rc systems. https://skarnet.org/software/s6/ https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html
Re: Alpine Linux is reducing dependencies on Busybox
#15Re: Alpine Linux is reducing dependencies on Busybox
#16For the trivia, this is pushed by Laurent Bercot (skarnet), creator of s6, execline and many others. He's also working on implementing s6 as Alpine init and rc systems. https://skarnet.org/software/s6/ https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html
They're really still going through with that? I didn't expect I'd have to find another distro so soon.
Re: Alpine Linux is reducing dependencies on Busybox
#17I really like alpine linux. I used it as my WSL2 env for years. I run Void Linux on actual hardware these days (better to use photon for games than WSL2 for work), but would probably switch back to alpine if it had more packages and rolling release, as it had the best package manager I had ever used.
Re: Alpine Linux is reducing dependencies on Busybox
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#19This really looks like an example of open source done right. Obviously there are some strong opinions, but the person suggesting the change was pretty gracious about the pushback they got. Since then, stakeholders have had a chance to discuss and agree on a way forward. Nobody is trying to sweep all the "nasty bits" under the rug, like most developers tend to, and there's even mention of regression tests. I've seen f…
> and there's even mention of regression tests I've been doing (mostly) full-coverage unit and integration testing since, oh... 2005? At least in the Ruby on Rails and now Elixir/Phoenix development spaces, it's absolutely de rigeur, and has probably saved me countless hours of debugging and simply not breaking stuff that already worked, or validating that things worked the way I expected them to. The fact that in 20…