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kccqzy • today at 5:43 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I fail to see how that’s useful. Why would I care about the layers inside an image when I could just extract the entire filesystem inside. Even then it is not useful if we don’t have a culture of reproducible builds.


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a-nych • today at 6:08 PM

Fair, "inspect the image" was a bad way to put it.

What I meant was: don't trust prebuilt images from a stranger, including mine. I've provided them just as a convenience, the Dockerfiles and patches can be easily looked-through, and building them yourself is the safer option if you need these docker images.