Hi, nop, the reasoning behind having a base set of packages installed is that I more often than not use those. But as I start docker off a particular folder, I could decide not to use that base folder, and then having no package pre installed, or a complete different set.

This other comment [1] clarifies my whole set up, and sheds a lot more light on how it works

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24028953