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by darkwater 1666 days ago
> For context, I'm referencing our (legacy) base image for projects on Replit: Polygott (https://github.com/replit/polygott/).

May I ask why you didn't use something like Ansible to build such a complex image? With appropriate package version pinning (which it's the real crux here) it should work well enough to get a reproducible build.

I understand it would already have been something different from a pure Dockerfile so it's not that fair to compare buuut...

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> May I ask why you didn't use something like Ansible

They did; it's called Nix, and they wrote a blog post about it ;)