&gt; The parent is advocating for the Slackware approach—just take whatever&#x27;s in the upstreams and slam it together—but installed into a container (so all that slamming doesn&#x27;t conflict with anything), and distributed as a container image.<p>Have you heard of Nix and NixOS? It doesn&#x27;t use containers for this, but each package&#x27;s tree is kept isolated from the others&#x27;.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nixos.org&#x2F;nixos&#x2F;about.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nixos.org&#x2F;nixos&#x2F;about.html</a>