Re: official Emacs Docker image

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Elias Mårtenson <address@hidden> writes:

> On 1 January 2017 at 06:04, Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> 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.
>>
>
> 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.

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Ricardo

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