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by fillest 302 days ago
Services should be decoupled from OS distro dependencies as much as possible, otherwise you will be bitten at an unexpected moment (e.g. upgrading your distro packages) by some problem like this https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Locale_data_changes

This can be solved by building statically (or using something like Nix) or by at least using containers.