Re: [atomic-devel] Are we slim yet?

[Joe Brockmeier <jzb redhat com>]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 01:58:34PM -0500, Jon Stanley wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Colin Walters <walters verbum org> wrote:
> 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1161251
> 
> So for this one, do we even want git in the base image *at all*? I see
> that the usecase that you mentioned in the bug was for downloading
> Dockerfiles which are maintained in git. I don't see people (but maybe
> I'm wrong) building images on an Atomic host, but rather using
> something to download the finished images from either a private
> registry or the Docker Hub, as applicable. Am I missing some other use
> case here?


No, that sounds right to me. To test Atomic I think some folks have just
been doing everything in an Atomic host, but for real use cases...
having git in the host seems unnecessary. 

(Please correct me if I'm wrong, folks) 

Best, 

jzb
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