Post #2619815
2026-05-15 12:29 UTC
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@Di4na@hachyderm.io 2026-05-15 13:39
@andrewnez@mastodon.social I don't disagree but also I don't think this is the wrong decision. I think pushing it down to users is actually the right decision, as long as you accept that FOSS is all about enabling consumers. I do think that our *deployment* tooling also kinda lost a lot of these channels ideas and it is also hurting. But like. At some point, we have to accept that the user have to do most of the work in FOSS. That is the basic thing we push on them. Hell, I am at the point where I do not want to run my production machine on `stable` channels of distros, because they tend to be so conservative they become a performance and security problem.
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@gordonmessmer@fosstodon.org 2026-05-15 17:42
@andrewnez@mastodon.social I don't think that's logically consistent. If I ask a coworker to "install Debian", they will most likely install the latest release of Debian, because I didn't provide a selector of any kind. If I run "podman pull debian" I will get the latest release of Debian. So, if "pip install requests" installing the latest stable release means that the registry is unstable, then the same terminology would classify container registries and distributions as "unstable."