I am begging software projects to release programs as tarballs or plain old static binaries. I don't know what a Helm chart is. I am not installing an entire Kubernetes cluster. Docker breaks LXC and firewalls and is constantly breaking for mysterious reasons. I would rather submit myself to hours of `./configure && make && make install` frustration than try to hack through the endless hellscape of containerized deployment systems.
if you release a .deb that installs cleanly on stock debian stable I will kiss you sweetly while whispering words of affirmation into your ears

@aphyr

Deb packages are meant to configure an OS, they are not an application platform that third-parties can target all at the same time without interfering with each others.

With OCI containers an application platform is implemented by reusing Linux-based OSs; as a lover of Linux distributions like Debian I couldn't ask for anything better.

@alxlg @aphyr I think it is not great when basic things like strace don't work, and there needs to be a very good justification for breaking them. Sometimes there is but often it's just "sorry shipping a binary built in Node is too hard"

@rain @aphyr

Compare OCI containers with other *application platforms* like Android's, Snap by Canonical etc.