[ferd]

...package managers to (un)install software. RedHat Linux had RPM since 1998 at least

[BobbyTables2]

We’ve already come full circle.

Nobody uninstalls packages from a Docker container…

With immutable designs, we’re just reinstalling the whole OS on each update…just a bit more efficiently thanks to cheap storage.

[eru]

Slight tangent:

Back in the primordial olden days, people used to patch binaries. These days, we just compile them from scratch, when we want to make a change.

So it's not too surprising that people apply the same approach to the whole OS installation.

Mutation is hard to get right!

[SAI_Peregrinus]

With ephemeral NixOS, I'm reinstalling the whole OS (sort of) on every boot!