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       2023-10-13T09:26:39Z
       
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       Sigh... containers may solve some problems, but now we have so many people completely incapable of producing software meant to co-exist on a machine. Like.... points for using /usr/local, but /usr/local/foo.conf isn't a smart way to store configuration files. And /usr/local/foo/(data files) isn't much better. And you end up with software that's largely unconfigurable, ("just use env varibles" doesn't scale), and extremely difficult to troubleshoot because everything is packaged uniquely...