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		ellisv on Feb 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Launch HN: Depot (YC W23) – Fast Docker Builds in ... How do you deal with so many base images only supporting a single architecture? We’d love to build multi-arch containers but don’t want to maintain all of our base images either.

eatonphil on Feb 22, 2023 [–]

What images support only a single architecture? The ones I use: alpine, ubuntu work fine.

If you're already building images (because that's what we're talking about) what difference does it make at which base image you start?

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