| > Software devs who live in user space want a more "App Store" like delivery mechanism where they have control. They can have control. They can say that we have flatpaks and app images we publish and support, and they only support the latest version (or the same minor version, whatever), and can say that packages got from distros may not be the latest. There's no need for a yelling match, IMHO. Distros also can do whatever they want. Like rclone. You can get the packages from rclone.org or from your distros. There's no yelling match, but trade-offs. > ...that same container being ported to lcx in production makes it a package manager. I don't think so. I have containers which work like binaries (in the form of "./binary infile outfile" fashion) and exit after processing what I give them. For me that container is a utility program as a whole. Same for the imap-backup example. When you think services which are always on, docker might be a package manager, but I pack my own containers for example, so it's more like compiling for me. So, what docker or containers is depends on your perspective, or like a chameleon which changes its color according to the landscape it's in. So, it's a tool in the end. Package managers are tools, too. |