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by pinglin 1390 days ago
One can absolutely lock versions in their Dockerfile. I can see that the design principle of DevBox is to pin the versions. At the end of the day we all need to consider versioning (i.e., the image version) the versions (i.e., package versions) anyway.
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Reproducible Docker is fighting an uphill battle, Nix and it's ecosystem tries to be reproducible by default.

Dockers ecosystem aims more for repeatable, not reproducible.

> At the end of the day we all need to consider versioning (i.e., the image version) the versions (i.e., package versions) anyway.

The granularity of pinned versions and feasibility of having a culture of everything being pinned versus needing to know a crazy amount of things that need pinned a big difference.