Re: Guix on Macintosh?

[Yasuaki Kudo]

Yes, but the thing is, when you use docker compose with 7 services or 
something, the dev teams will understand the logic of using Guix to 
consolidate these. 😁

So we might end up with a Guix-for-developers container (for Windows and 
Mac programmers,  won't be in production), which we will use to produce 
the actual, consolidated Guix docker for production use (using the 
docker export feature of Guix) ?

-Yasu

On 6/23/23 19:24, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> Yasuaki Kudo <yasu@yasuaki.com> writes:
> > Docker for MacOS does seem to run Linux containers.
> Running Guix inside a Docker container seems like a very peculiar
> foreign distro.  In your words, Yasuaki, it is convoluted.  I believe
> Docker is not intended to be used in this way.  Mostly Docker and Guix
> are alternatives.
>
> IIUC Docker on Mac runs a Linux VM internally.  Running Guix inside
> Docker on Mac’s Linux VM is building up software layers on software
> layers unnecessarily.  Also, Docker is not intended to be used in this
> way.  It is untested with potential for bugs.
>
> Also you can use Guix to make Docker images from Guix packages, but that
> is mostly for convenience when someone has a setup in which it is easier
> to run a Docker image.
>
> Regards,
> Florian