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		paranoidrobot on April 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Magicpak: Build minimal Docker images without stat... Could you elaborate with some examples of what you mean, and where those might be better alternatives than using the linked tool?

otabdeveloper4 on April 15, 2020 | [–]

Which of the linked tools?

The original commenter called magicpak a 'cool alternative to nix', to which I replied that nix is an industrial-strength, tested and very through solution, while magicpak is more like a dirty hack. (We used to have an internal tool much like magicpak before nix came along.)

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