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Worst part of GitHub Actions? Its encouragement of the total misuse of containers as what have essentially become installer scripts - complete with all the flakiness you'd imagine.

Go look at your workflows and see how much of the runtime is spent running installers upon installers for various languages, package managers and so on. Containers were not supposed to be like this.



Well the default GitHub images come with the kitchen sink, so for most projects you don’t need to install much if anything.


Yeah sure if you want to get zero guarantees about any of the versions of anything you're getting.




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