Re: official Emacs Docker image

[Ricardo Wurmus]

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.

200MB is quite optimistic, though.  A fully functional GTK+ installation
with all dependencies is already larger than that.

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Ricardo

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