I am a bit curious of the MongoDB removal.<p>Truecrypt and Qt4 I sort of understand, but MongoDB is still actively developed, so there seem to be a story there...<p>Update: I guess thats the reaction to the not OSI approved licence they switched to late 2018.
<a href="https://bugs.alpinelinux.org/versions/133" rel="nofollow">https://bugs.alpinelinux.org/versions/133</a>
49 days late?<p>Does anyone know the meaning of "late", if any, in this context?
Interesting that they still had a truecrypt package. It looks like they've had the veracrypt package for a while (The currently maintained major fork).<p>I really like Alpine. Last time I tried using it on a bare metal system, it still had some missing EFI packages (I can't remember if it was the grub UEFI stuff or efibootmgr) and I ended up going Void, but I should take a look at it again. I use it as a base for a lot of my containers.
I'm using alpine with docker (<a href="https://hub.docker.com/r/_/alpine" rel="nofollow">https://hub.docker.com/r/_/alpine</a>), and one of the thing that bothers me the most is NOT having the ability to just say "alpine:3". This is not an available tag (for reasons unknown to me).<p>If you look at many other similar official docker images like python or golang, you can just say python:3, or golang:1 so that I don't have to worry about tracking non-breaking version updates.<p>Not having the ability to specify "alpine:3" and not having the time to track such versions might be also why people do alpine:latest in their Dockerfiles, cross their fingers, and hope for the best.