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[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Have you considered using testing instead of stable or Siduction?

[–] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 4 points 4 months ago

I should be more clear: specifically I was rebuilding a Docker image based on Debian and needed Node.js for one build step, then Ruby for another as well as the final image.

In the Dockerfile there were a ton of weird commands for simply installing Node.js and Ruby whereas on Alpine Linux I could simply install the needed versions from apk. I understand it’s preferable to build these from scratch but in the case of Node.js I was looking to simply compile a bunch of assets then throw away the layer.

I could’ve spent a bunch of time figuring it out for Debian but I wanted a smaller image in the end anyway too.