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mwoodpatrick

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Registered: 2023-05-14

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archlinux devcontainers

I am interested in using archlinux based devcontainers for my development but it seems like there are very few examples of archlinux based devcontainers and devcontainer features and am wondering why this is. Most appear to be ubuntu/debian/alpine based. I am interested in finding out if there are any efforts underway to develop archlinux based devcontainers/features.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: archlinux devcontainers

There's this, but this doesn't seem to be the same as what I found from a quick search for "devcontainer".  The later seems to bundle the editors and other tools used to work on the code - which I certainly don't get.  If one is writing C code, it shouldn't matter what editor you use and one should not need to install your preferred text editor to open / modify the code.

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: archlinux devcontainers

There's an official docker image - https://hub.docker.com/_/archlinux/ - and a  corresponding image repo: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archlinux-docker , what exactly are your expectations/examples/whatever of "archlinux based devcontainers"

mwoodpatrick

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Registered: 2023-05-14

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Re: archlinux devcontainers

I'm aware of and using the base image. I was trying to understand what folks in the archlinux community are doing with archlinux based dev containers and if there is a repository of devcontainer features similar to those in https://github.com/devcontainers/features/tree/main/src which mainly appear to be applicable to ubuntu/debian based images.