Am Freitag, 24. Juni 2022, 15:30:23 CEST schrieb Richard Brown:
On 2022-06-24 13:15, Eric Schirra wrote:
And I don't think that will work. Especially suse will not profit from it. At most, it will work for RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu and Arch. But not with SUSE. If you look at which companies create rpm packages and then look for which distributions, then it is almost never for Suse. Why should that change with container technology?
Well it will be different because unlike packages where they need to be built for SUSE to work on SUSE, a distro like ALP that is primarily consuming containers should be able to consume most if not all the containers out there, regardless of which distribution they were built for/on.
ALP should therefore have a much larger ecosystem of binaries it can consume outside of those built by SUSE, which is certainly a plus.
I myself have not been involved with catainertechnic that much. At most a little bit with docker. And there you can often hear about problems, that a docker package does not work in one or the other distribution. In theory, as always, all seems to work, the praxis then shows a different picture. And the problems do not become less, but shift and partly even more complex. So I can't quite believe your reasoning. As I said, I'm happy to be better informed in the future.
Last question. Will Tumbleweed remain as it is, or will the container technology (ALP ) also find its way there?
Tumbleweed is already the originator of many ALP technologies (eg. MicroOS, all official openSUSE containers which use TW as their base).
I certainly expect TW to continue to be either ahead or matching ALP as it develops.
My question was not aimed at that. I know that Tumbleed is the basis for many other things. My question was about using container technology. In other words. At some point there will be no more normal RPM packages in Leap, to put it bluntly. Then everything possible will be available as containers. Will that be the case in Tumbleweed? Or will that only be a possibility in Tumbleweed? So will I still get all programs as a normal RPM package as before? Regards Eric