The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers
This bothers me as well. Even tasks as simple as adding a repository are now being "improved" with a curl | sudo bash style setup[1].<p>However, installing from source with make was (and remains) a mess. It may work if you're dedicated to maintaining one application and (part of) its stack. But even then it usually leads to out of date software and tracking versions by hand.<p>Many people have this weird aversion to doing basic sysadmin stuff with Linux. What makes it weird is that it's really simple. Often easier than figuring out another deploy system.<p>(The neckbeard in me blames the popularity of OSX on dev machines.)<p>[1] <a href="https://nodesource.com/blog/nodejs-v012-iojs-and-the-nodesource-linux-repositories" rel="nofollow">https://nodesource.com/blog/nodejs-v012-iojs-and-the-nodesou...</a>