Hey guix, Along with many other folks, I find myself in the situation of having to interact with docker often. The latest docker command line client supports a way to add new subcommands via a cli-plugins system[1].
This way of working is easy, but relies on building programs and putting them in kind of random places in either my home directory or the top level `/usr/...' [2]. I'd much rather have this be self-contained in my guix-profiles instead. Patching the docker command line client to look in "the right places" should IMHO not be too difficult, but finding the right way to go about this is a different issue. My current idea is as follows: - Patch our docker-cli package to respect e.g. `GUIX_DOCKER_PLUGIN_PATH', and add it as a search-path - Attempt to package some docker-cli compatible plugins, which would be install binaries according to the earlier mentioned search-path. The advantages of this approach is that it plays nicely with all the guix commands. The biggest drawback would be that we would have to maintain a bespoke patch for docker-cli. Another potential problem would be any new security issues introduced using this simplistic approach. I'd appreciate some feedback from anyone using docker, because this does seem like some fairly low-hanging fruit. - Jelle [1]: https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/1534 [2]: The suggested installation method implies downloading some random fat binaries and copying them to your system as-is.
