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by throw16180339 1068 days ago
Alpine has at least the following deficiencies:

DNS TCP resolution doesn't work (https://christoph.luppri.ch/fixing-dns-resolution-for-ruby-o...). It's a feature that it doesn't retry truncated lookups or obey the relevant RFCs (https://twitter.com/RichFelker/status/994629795551031296).

Alpine has a 128k stack size (https://ariadne.space/2021/06/25/understanding-thread-stack-...), while most other OSes have at least a 512k stack.
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rollcat 1068 days ago
Just to be clear, I'm not blindly defending musl/Alpine, rather noting the detrimental effects of monoculture.

Quite often fixing a build or a package on another system or architecture is a matter of a 3-5 line diff, and I've contributed quite a few over the years. It usually boils down to an incorrect assumption by the author/maintainer, stuff like "#ifdef __linux__" (when what you actually mean is: "any UNIX-like system with X11"), or hardcoding CC=gcc (where CC=cc just works).

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nicce 1067 days ago
DNS TCP resolution has been fixed this year

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/16/alpine_linux_318/

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throw16180339 1067 days ago
Thanks for letting me know!
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