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That's cool, but aren't containers considered to be a workaround for exactly that problem?

Yep, but workarounds come with a cost. We're trying to package basically everything, so you don't need to pick between "up to date software" and "software from a trusted distro".

It's going to be hard to scale, but we're going to at least try! We have a lot of ideas on how to make this work that I'm excited to try out.

So you want to provide all the up to date software, but as battle tested as the software included in the debian repos, with a few people?

Roughly yes! I think we have a few advantages - mainly that we're focused on container workloads - that simplify the problem. But otherwise, yes!

I'm betting that with enough automation we can get there :)

We can always come back to the discussion of statically linked vs dynamically. If your build system is strong an can adapt to these changes thats another option.

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