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README.me: update Buildah description (#586)
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Use the latest description of Buildah from upstream.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <[email protected]>
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Expand Up @@ -467,12 +467,15 @@ filesystem is sufficiently complicated). However it has no `Dockerfile`-like
build tooling (it's a slightly lower-level tool that can be used to build such
builders -- such as `orca-build`).

`Buildah` can run as a non root user and does not require privileges. Buildah
specializes in building OCI images. Buildah's commands replicate all of the
commands that are found in a Dockerfile. Its goal is also to provide a lower
level coreutils interface to build images, allowing people to build containers
without requiring a Dockerfile. The intent with Buildah is to allow other
scripting languages to build container images, without requiring a daemon.
`Buildah` specializes in building OCI images. Buildah's commands replicate all
of the commands that are found in a Dockerfile. This allows building images
with and without Dockerfiles while not requiring any root privileges.
Buildah’s ultimate goal is to provide a lower-level coreutils interface to
build images. The flexibility of building images without Dockerfiles allows
for the integration of other scripting languages into the build process.
Buildah follows a simple fork-exec model and does not run as a daemon
but it is based on a comprehensive API in golang, which can be vendored
into other tools.

`FTL` and `Bazel` aim to achieve the fastest possible creation of Docker images
for a subset of images. These can be thought of as a special-case "fast path"
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