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It's covered explicitly in the "goals and principles" section. They're aiming for a reusable environment for older games, not a single-purpose one.
by Groxx 7y ago
It's covered explicitly in the "goals and principles" section. They're aiming for a reusable environment for older games, not a single-purpose one.
- jayd16 7y agoThey could make a base image and then an image layer that contains the game files only. Now you have a single file image per game with a consistent base.
- Groxx 7y agoSure, as a follow-up they could do that. That's (very clearly declared to be) not the goal of the author though.
- jayd16 7y agoMy point is that by separating the layers it does fulfill the declared goals but in a more portable way. As implemented, there could be hidden dependencies on the local file system or across game installs.
- reificator 7y agoBut it then prevents redistribution of the container images in a legal manner, because the game files themselves are still under copyright.
- djhworld 7y agoI guess one concern might be the author wanting to push the images to a public repo so other people can use them - which would probably get the author into a bit of trouble for distributing paid content.