On 1 January 2017 at 17:03, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:

>
> Elias Mårtenson <lokedhs@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Arguably there should be a fully free distribution that could be the base
> > for more than just Emacs.
>
> GuixSD is a fully free GNU distribution and it comes with the tools that
> are needed to determine runtime dependencies that can then turned into a
> Docker image.  Since Guix is a functional package manager and thus can
> account for the full closure of a package it doesn’t require a base
> image and can be the base itself.


I have to admit that I don't fully know what Guix is, but based on what you
say, it would still make sense to have a base (Guix, in this case) that
other containers base themselves on. That way the storage can be shared
between containers.