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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Have you considered using testing instead of stable or Siduction?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I should be more clear: specifically I was rebuilding a Docker image based on Debian and needed Node.js for one build step, then Ruby for another as well as the final image.

In the Dockerfile there were a ton of weird commands for simply installing Node.js and Ruby whereas on Alpine Linux I could simply install the needed versions from apk. I understand it’s preferable to build these from scratch but in the case of Node.js I was looking to simply compile a bunch of assets then throw away the layer.

I could’ve spent a bunch of time figuring it out for Debian but I wanted a smaller image in the end anyway too.