Hello Jelle, On January 3, 2020 11:52:17 AM UTC, Jelle Licht <jli...@fsfe.org> wrote:
[…] >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. The suggested approach seems sound; I'd go for the same solution myself. Perhaps we could lobby upstream to add an environment variable we could use directly in the long term. Thank you for working on this! Maxim
