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Created by Noah Nordrum@nnordrum

Ability to Default to --no-cache

Given that

docker --no-cache add curl

would be best practice in a docker container (I assume), it would be nice if there was a mechanism to change that default.

I can think of a number of ways:

  • compile flag
  • separate apk-tools package
  • /etc/apkrc
  • environment variable that is always added to the command line like APK_OPTIONS that could be set to —no-cache in the alpine base image

or you could just tell me to keep using in my root container :)

alias apk="apk --no-cache"

I know it seems I’m being super lazy, but I think it’s best to provide best practices as the default options and then let people deviate if they choose.

(from redmine: issue id 5980, created on 2016-07-28)