On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 16:32:54 +0100 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Thompson, David 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! agreed. efraim@debian-netbook:~$ ls -la /gnu/store/*sh -r-xr-xr-x 27 root root 1425560 Jan 1 1970 /gnu/store/gvwf71vddp8c1d7ydqg02p43mgdjrx6s-bash -r--r--r-- 2 root root 1153 Jan 1 1970 /gnu/store/jd51fxgzf2bj3v9naliq44vgcib06ay9-build-bootstrap-guile.sh -r-xr-xr-x 27 root root 1351732 Jan 1 1970 /gnu/store/mzfkrxd4w8vqrmyrx169wj8wyw7r8i37-bash -r--r--r-- 2 root root 1153 Jan 1 1970 /gnu/store/x06d80rn9lxbh3305pkizf4k2dswsbn1-build-bootstrap-guile.sh -r-xr-xr-x 2 root guix-builder 765 Jan 1 1970 /gnu/store/zrnjijsg19f52ficwlk4n5cccf6smhya-run-vm.sh 765 bytes is the smallest VM I've ever seen :) -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted