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Re: Environment containers


From: Ricardo Wurmus
Subject: Re: Environment containers
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 16:32:54 +0100

Thompson, David <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello Guix hackers,
>
> I am pleased to announce that the patch for adding Linux container
> support to 'guix environment' has just landed in master!

Yay!  Thank you so much for your work on this!

> 2) There are no disk images.  Disk images are opaque blobs that are
> often not reproducible, whereas the items in the Guix store tell you
> the full story of how the software came to be.  Thus, Guix containers
> do not worry at all about the complications involved with layering
> disk images in an overlayfs-style setup.  They are simply not needed.

Beautiful!

~~ Ricardo



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