The thing is, Docker Golf is possibly the worst way to optimise the real costs of container images -- because it comes at the cost of maintenance (distributions

The thing is, Docker Golf is possibly the worst way to optimise the real costs of container images -- because it comes at the cost of maintenance (distributions exist for a reason). A much better solution is to fix the image format to better handle the usecases that it needs to handle. (This is what I'm working on at the moment.)