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by treis 2580 days ago
>You can often run daemons as different users and set appropriate file permissions. You can add ENV variables to your start up scripts or configuration files. Volumes are mounted by the system (and you set appropriate access rights again).

That sounds exactly like creating a Dockerfile. The difference is that your script has to work any number of times on an endless number of system configurations. The Dockerfile has to work once on one system which is a much easier target to hit. The "any number of times on an endless number of system configurations" is a problem taken care of by the Docker team.

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Which sounds exactly like having a proper package manager...