Re: [gentoo-dev] Integrating Portage with other package managers

[R0b0t1]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 3:06 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 3:55 PM, R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote:
>>>
>>> Because containers are awesome and are way easier to use.
>>>
>>
>> I think you missed my point: Why are they easier to use?
>>
>
> I suspect that he was equating "containers" with "Docker," which both
> runs containers and also is an image management solution (one that I
> don't particularly like, but probably because I don't have heavy needs
> so I find myself fighting it more than anything else - it doesn't hurt
> that for the life of me I can't get it to connect containers to my
> bridge, and it seems like it is completely opposed to just using DHCP
> to obtain IPs).
>
> But, if you're using Docker, sure, you can run whatever the command is
> to download an image of a container with some software pre-installed
> and run it.
>
> If you're using something other than Docker to manage your containers
> then you still have to get the software you want to use installed in
> your container image.
>

I think I was equating containers to Docker as well. My point was
instead of trying to manage dependencies, containers allow people to
shove everything into an empty root with no conflicts. The
enthusiastic blog post seems to restate this.