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Why Linux is portrayed as a Penguin?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you elaborate? I'm aware alpine uses non-GNU stuff like musl & busybox. But overall, they're not too far off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It was a dependency resolution issue. Npm couldn't install one of the packages without some package.json gymnastics, and those same gymnastics somehow fucked with our debian based images that we use for development. I can't say much more because I honestly don't know what exactly happened. I just diagnosed the issue and forwarded it to our resident node guru, who took it from there.