Nobody uninstalls packages from a Docker container…
With immutable designs, we’re just reinstalling the whole OS on each update…just a bit more efficiently thanks to cheap storage.
Back in the primordial olden days, people used to patch binaries. These days, we just compile them from scratch, when we want to make a change.
So it's not too surprising that people apply the same approach to the whole OS installation.
Mutation is hard to get right!
Back in the primordial olden days, people used to patch binaries. These days, we just compile them from scratch, when we want to make a change.
So it's not too surprising that people apply the same approach to the whole OS installation.
Mutation is hard to get right!