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I haven't read much, but I think the idea is doing all the building process in a container so you don't fill your system with headers, libraries and dependencie
by tecleandor 4y ago
I haven't read much, but I think the idea is doing all the building process in a container so you don't fill your system with headers, libraries and dependencies.
I don't know how well this deals with caches and so, though.
- ta988 4y agoYes it is just used as an easier to setup manage and dispose of chroot. Which I believe is also a perfect use of docker. It is not all about isolation, sometimes you just want to be able to experiment and go back easily. Sure there are filesystems that allow you to take snapshots but not everybody use these for various reasons.