From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Environment containers Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 16:32:54 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46539) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZrSip-0007pz-Hi for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:33:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZrSil-0003ew-G6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:33:07 -0400 Received: from sinope.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de ([141.80.25.23]:54334) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZrSil-0003e1-7D for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:33:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "Thompson, David" Cc: guix-devel 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! ~~ Ricardo