On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 2:51 PM zimoun <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe the explosion of size would be slower. If you do, please report > here the number after say 12 generations; I am really interesting. ;-) > Now I'm confused - in your reply to Vincent, it seemed that there were still problems with the GC removing dead store items even after you did an export/re-import with the entire image on a single Docker layer? Or did I misread it? > All the question seems to be: > - what is the purpose of such Docker image? Which usage? > - what infrastructure do you have at hand to build the Docker images? > Well, Guix is interesting, and there aren't ready-made containers for it out there like there are for Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. if you have a need to do some task in that kind of environment, or just to play around, or see how the system is evolving. Also, I have been playing around with Guile lately and I thought Guix might be a better fit for that kind of work than other environments where Guile is largely neglected (Guix is *written* in Guile, after all). And I happened to be learning GitLab CI/CD around the same time, and it seemed like a good opportunity to experiment with both at once, so I thought, why not? :-) Which infrastructure - well, GitLab CI/CD, with fixed compute limits :-)