docs: clarify OS image package management limitations in SDK guide#555
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Signed-off-by: Jan Bronicki <janbronicki@gmail.com>
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| Gentoo itself does not ship packages - instead, it consists of a massive number of ebuild files to build applications at installation time (that’s an oversimplification as there are binary package caches, but that’s beyond the scope of this document). | ||
| While the Flatcar SDK can be understood as a Gentoo derivative, the OS image is special. | ||
| The OS image is not self-contained, i.e. it cannot install / update packages - it lacks both a compiler to build packages as well as tools to orchestrate builds and install the resulting binaries. | ||
| The OS image cannot install or update packages on its own - it ships neither a compiler to build packages nor the tooling to orchestrate builds and install the resulting binaries. |
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Why is everyone afraid of proper sentences? At the very least, I think this should be a semicolon.
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| The OS image cannot install or update packages on its own - it ships neither a compiler to build packages nor the tooling to orchestrate builds and install the resulting binaries. | |
| The OS image cannot install or update packages on its own. It ships neither a compiler to build packages nor the tooling to orchestrate builds and install the resulting binaries. |
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This pull request makes a small wording improvement to the developer documentation for modifying Flatcar using the SDK. The change clarifies that the OS image cannot install or update packages on its own, and does not include a compiler or build tooling. Self-contained can mean a lot of things.