From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ricardo Wurmus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: official Emacs Docker image Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 23:04:25 +0100 Message-ID: <87mvfbzrfa.fsf@elephly.net> References: <831tbxn5id.fsf@gnu.org> <87oaf1bvsb.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87mvukq7gd.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <877fcyg5ah.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87h9c0b6bd.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878txa9zvx.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1483221894 15539 195.159.176.226 (31 Dec 2016 22:04:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 22:04:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.18; emacs 25.1.1 Cc: John Wiegley , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 31 23:04:47 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cNRla-0002DW-HB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2016 23:04:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45462 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cNRld-0006hZ-GS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2016 17:04:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52792) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cNRlX-0006hT-FR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2016 17:04:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cNRlW-00041z-Jn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2016 17:04:39 -0500 Original-Received: from sender-of-o52.zoho.com ([135.84.80.217]:21440) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cNRlS-000419-SX; Sat, 31 Dec 2016 17:04:35 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (xd9bff0e4.dyn.telefonica.de [217.191.240.228]) by mx.zohomail.com with SMTPS id 1483221869674285.5448889061478; Sat, 31 Dec 2016 14:04:29 -0800 (PST) In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 135.84.80.217 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:211048 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > However, I don't see any ethical issue about making and distributing > Docker images of Emacs as long as we get the details right: for > instance, use an endorsed free GNU/Linux distro. We could use Guix to generate the image contents from scratch, i.e. we wouldn’t even have to use a “base image” (usually a minimal GNU/Linux system). The idea is to export the package closure for the “emacs” package from the Guix store (this includes all runtime dependencies) and wrap up the files in a plain docker image. 200MB is quite optimistic, though. A fully functional GTK+ installation with all dependencies is already larger than that. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC http://elephly.net