[rubicks]

If we can push Ubuntu out of the pole position, then I think we can solidify Alpine as the next great Linux distribution. I am all for simpler packaging.

I do fear, though, that Debian packaging has absorbed some necessary complexity that Alpine packaging has not --- if only because Debian has been around so much longer.

[steve_rambo]

Arch has a very similar package format and is 21 years old. Alpine is more than 18. They haven't accrued much cruft in that time. One could argue they have worse support for things like cross-compilation, but many (most?) of us don't need that, and I see no reason to pay for it in 99% of use cases.