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		gmfawcett on May 16, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers... Some were, I guess, but hardly all of them. The Linux kernel is built with Make, for example.

digi_owl on May 16, 2018 [–]

There are been several attempts at introducing a new build system, but they have been all shot down over introducing dependencies.

gaius on May 16, 2018 | [–]

If it ain't broke don't fix it!

How many features could people have implemented or bugs fixed or general progress made instead of obsessing over tooling?

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