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Re: Releasing guix binary in Docker format too?
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Releasing guix binary in Docker format too? |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Oct 2020 11:12:41 +0200 |
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Hi,
zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:
> Back to this. Since it would be nice to try to release (somewhere?)
> an experimental guix Docker image.
Among the issues to be addressed is whether we can push to DockerHub
with free software only (there was a discussion recently on IRC about a
tool to do that, but I don’t remember the details.)
> guix->libx11: graphviz@2.42.3
> guix->fribidi: graphviz@2.42.3
> guix->graphviz: graphviz@2.42.3
> guix->cairo: graphviz@2.42.3
> guix->pixman: graphviz@2.42.3
> guix->libjpeg-turbo: graphviz@2.42.3
> guix->pango: graphviz@2.42.3
>
> And AFAIU, this 'graphivz' package is only used to produce the images
> in the manual. Similarly, the package 'texinfo' which pulls *a lot*
> could be removed.
These are build-time dependencies so that should only be a problem when
one has to build ‘guix’ from source.
Thanks,
Ludo’.