[jarbus]

I agree. If these could be made installable without root, and independent of the current version of glibc, then there is huge potential to replace the older tools. I’d love to use things like fd, but they don’t work on older servers without root and a newer version of glibc

[tomjakubowski]

They're already installable without root. Just put them in ~/.local/bin. Most Rust binaries are portable and only dynamically link libc.

[layer8]

Local installation is still not really a practical solution when you work e.g. on customer machines, on machines of another team, or generally if you work on many different machines. You still need to be aware of the standard tools and know how to use them when needed.

I mean, I get it — I used to locally install vim on machines that only had vi, to make my muscle memory be functional when editing files. But it’s not the same as a core tool just being available by default so you don’t have to ever concern yourself with any alternatives.

[jarbus]

That’s what I initially tried for fd, but unfortunately glibc is required for it, and probably other utilities as well.

[homarp]

fd has musl version

https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/releases/download/v8.4.0/fd-mu...

[roey2009]

What would prevent us from adding those to a docker file?

[jarbus]

Docker not being installed on remote