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I'm surprised this post isn't making use of nixery - https://nixery.dev/ https://nixery.dev/

• rgoulter 5y ago
  Nixery is a cool idea. The use case for something like Nixery is a more narrow "I want an image with these packages installed". Whereas, with Dockerfiles you've got more flexibility in the image you build.
  • ghuntley 5y ago
    Hmm not really. That's the toy use case. Nixery builds your expression and gives you a docker container. By default you can specify like "git and tmux" as they are the example toy expressions HOWEVER it becomes a different beast when you use it in monorepo situation see https://GitHub.com/ghuntley/ghuntley https://GitHub.com/ghuntley/ghuntley and https://code.tvl.fyi/ https://code.tvl.fyi/
    • rgoulter 5y ago
      My understanding is that's still "use Nixery to build docker image with packages installed", but it's a different set of packages being served. What use cases / dynamics arise from doing that? & what's the value-add from doing that with Nixery compared to just otherwise building docker images with dockerTools in Nixpkgs?
• neolog 5y ago
  Nixery kinda seems like a toy. Does it have some more serious use?
  • ghuntley 5y ago
    Come hangout with us https://tvl.fyi/ https://tvl.fyi/ — the visualisation has some hints :-)