Rich Lander

The team is trying to put my creative efforts in a straightjacket. "I cannot create under these conditions!"

Sounds great! I might do a blog post about Noble in April, and this would be perfect context to include.

I assume not. I would like to be able to remove them for Linux sourcebuild. Related: - https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/issues/2901

Wow. This one skipped by me. Please accept my apologies! LGTM

Agreed that the source build leg solves multiple problems. We currently using CentOS Stream 9 for that purpose. AFAIK, we plan to continue using that distro (with the oldest supported...

I changed the text above to be CentOS Stream 9. It's quite easy to get confused reading pipeline definitions.

Some repos have policies that need to be documented / better defined so that their image needs are better understood. Examples - https://github.com/dotnet/diagnostics/pull/4561#issuecomment-2043425915 - https://github.com/dotnet/arcade/pull/14621#discussion_r1556213331

This is similar: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/tree/main/src/libraries/Microsoft.NETCore.Platforms

I tried to get this to work with `sha512`. It doesn't seem to. Any plans to enable the longer digest length? I was wanting to rewrite this Dockerfile with this...

Got it. Thanks. Makes sense. I appreciate the extra insight.