• 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      12 days ago

      Rolling release and stable. And no systemd… not by choice though, they’re not purists, you just can’t build it for musl.

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        11 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.

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            11 days 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