Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
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RT @neimagazine@twitter.com

Operation of unit 3 at Mochovce NPP facing delays after leak detected during pressure tests... neimagazine.com/news/newsdelay

#OperationsAndMaintenance #nuclearenergy #energy #power #nuclear

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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​ · @dredmorbius
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@rysiek There's a flavour of argument over packaging systems and formats which runs:

  • X package format is difficult for software developers to use.
  • Y package format is easy for software developers to use.
  • Therefore Y package format is better than X.

What's not realised is that the fundamental value and benefit to package management is to systems administrators / owners / users, and integrated distributions of packages. And that the major costs of operation and maintenance are not installation, but *operations and maintenance.

"Easy for sofware developers" typically translates to "encourages sloppy and difficult-to-maintain processes and practices". Not only this, but by lowering up-front costs at the expense of long-term costs, the practice further encourages poor practices (from an O&M perspective), and puts well-behaved software at a disadvantage.

See the Debian Project's explicit focus on user benefit, a long-term value benefit.

This is a Jevons Paradox / Gresham's Law crowding out of well-behaved software and a race-to-the-bottom of poor long-term O&M behaviour.

#linux #packagemanagement #OperationsAndMaintenance #jevonsparadox #greshamslaw #flatpak #snap

Last updated 3 years ago