What exactly is the appeal of "glibc based Alpine" anyway? Isn't the whole point of Alpine to get away from the GNU userland?
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I assume the major reason is trying to get pre-compiled proprietary software to work...hardly any proprietary software offers a musl version in addition to their glibc version.
you can try to install alpine-pkg-glibc
Ahm...the article is about how that package creates a broken system and that the alpine project doesn't want to be associated with images that have the package preinstalled. So not sure if suggesting to try it is a good idea ;)