Conventional wisdom holds that containers are fast on their way to remaking everything from application deployment to the design of ultralean Linux distributions. That last part raises a question, though: Could container technologies like Docker be used to solve Linux’s long-standing conundrums with package management? Might containers provide a path away from dependency hell and competing (and incompatible) package standards?
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