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Subject: [Discuss] systemd sucks and containers suck and language-specific package repos suck
From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:12:16 -0400
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On Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:32:48 -0400
markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:

> Containers are useful, but I have issues with docker's server design
> as it introduces its own vulnerabilities. Podman works well enough, I
> guess.

Yeah. Containers are not the problem. The two real problems are
Docker's brain-dead design decisions (I could go on at length and also
lump Canonical snaps into it) and trash software relying on containers
to hide their trashiness. Neither are problems with containers
conceptually.

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