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What's the proper way to install every-day CLI tools on immutable distributions like Fedora Bluefin? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by versionc@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've read that containers are preferred for development, but they aren't persistent and it doesn't seem like files such as /etc/fstab can be accessed through them when running distrobox (I enjoy editing such files using vim).

It's also a bit annoying having to enter a specific container to run something like btop.

Are you supposed to layer them with rpm-ostree?

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[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's the neat part - You don't! (unless you want incredibly long update times as every new util is a new overlay!)

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Incredibly long update time? Yeah... No. Definitely not something in had any issues with due to layered packages.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And to create your own image, you need half the repo as dependency and a 20 steps chain.

[–] TaintTaul@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Not in my experience. Though, I suppose I have to thank BlueBuild for the heavy lifting. It's not even restrictive either, even big^[relatively speaking] projects like secureblue depend on it.