Docs: dockerTools

[blaggacao]

nixpkgs/doc/builders/images/dockertools.xml

Line 169 in 5622b6b

Create a Docker image with many of the store paths being on their own layer to improve sharing between images. The image is realized into the Nix store as a gzipped tarball. Depending on the intended usage, many users might prefer to use <function>streamLayeredImage</function> instead, which this function uses internally.

many

Which exactly?

[nixos-discourse]

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/dockertools-imprecisions/8770/1

[blaggacao]

My prioritization algorithm is a simple graph-based popularity contest. The idea is to weight each node more heavily the deeper and more references they have.

out of: https://grahamc.com/blog/nix-and-layered-docker-images