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I mean, it isn't a big deal, just few packages need to be installed, just compared to "put a blob on server, run" it's more complex. It's all fine if you use any kind of configuration management as it is just write once in manifest and done.

But if you just install it directly via package manager, leave alone and need to say reinstall server or something, the knowledge is lost.

I remember having a lot of ping-pong between ruby devs where they, well, didn't note down what system libs and dev package they needed, just had them installed locally at some point and forgot about, then surprise when app isn't compiling on server.




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