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by ariadneconill 1760 days ago
The only reason I took any position at all on this issue is because other partners in the Alpine / Cloud Native ecosystem requested that we clarify our position on mixing musl and glibc runtimes.

You ignore the point I am making: people are already fighting this issue for years, and Alpine has not taken a position on it until now.

We should have done so sooner, but unfortunately we did not, so a more theatric approach is sometimes needed to make a point.

We want to discourage bad practices in the creation of alpine-based images, so that our partners (such as the Docker library team) do not have to deal with user complaints with images, or feel like companies are bullying them into accepting images they know are built with bad practices.

If you call taking action to provide assistance requested by our ecosystem partners (who have been thrilled that we are putting our foot down by the way) toxic behavior I wouldn’t want to know what your idea of a party is to be blunt.