Especially for changing compile time flags in software.
Especially for changing compile time flags in software.
Tthat heavily depends on if you need that software directly on the host image, and not in a distrobox, to be fair.
RYeah, but at the time distrobox didn't exists.
RNor a lot of other virtualization helpers.
RTherefore you either recompile or good luck.
Tyou sure man?
virt-manager exists for quite some time, aswell as docker and Podman.
virt-manager exists for quite some time, aswell as docker and Podman.
RYeah, I'm sure.
RStuff changed over the years.
RBesides, I'm still not a fan of virt layers over virt layer anyway.
RIt might have existed already in 2010, but good luck finding guides/help on them.
RAnd even the tooling itself wasn't quite there.
RJust far easier to recompile and enabling flags if you ask me.
Thonestly, if you can recompile stuff and enable flags across a variety of packages, you dont really need any particular guide for virtualisation.
RFair, but I'm not running a full stack VM for a single change.
Tpodman/docket isnt a full stack vm.
RAt that point I just use a different distro.
Tit shares the kernel of the host.
Tits like you are chrooting into another install
Twould you call that virtualisation too?
RDocker has been created in 2013
RSo after I had experiences with Debian.
Tand thats why i compare it to chroot.
RSo that was out of the picture anyway.
Tbecause that definitely existed way before docker
RTBH, I never tried that at the time, blame that at guides/help/knowledge found around at the time.
Tarchwiki mentioned it way back to verify if your installation was sucessful.
TLFS aswell
TGentoo aswell
RI used Arch from 2016(?) circa.
Twith way back, i seriously mean when arch was introduced.
RYeah, just need to call Intel to stop rereleasing quad cores for that /s
RYeah, I found arch far later to be honest.
RBut it's the first distro that I had not dropped ever XD
Tmeh, arch is nice for quite a few things, but i would never let it run on any super critical in my workflow
RFair, assuming you do not need the customization part of it.
Tat max as a docker container with a snapshot of the repo at the time of building
RIf you only use VMS, you really don't arch XD
Tyou can customize any distro, any way you want
RSure.
Tthats not arch exclusive at all.
RIt's the amount of effort required that is the problem for me.
Tthats... the same, excluding immutable distros to a certain extend
RAnd with Debian in particular the amount of times that something broke when upgraded to another distro :P
Tthe only pro and con of arch is the AUR.
RWhich is my main point above.
RGood point, you made me remember something.
RNot having a way to track modification in compiled stuff.
RPacman plus AUR makes it painless for me.
Tehm... and insecure aswell.
RThere is always downsides to everything in life.
Tnot necessarily.
