awscli@2.2.0 downloads and runs a docker container from a large american corporation

One thing I deeply appreciate about Gnu Guix is the fact that I have assurance that I have installed and am using software that respects my fundamental software freedoms. My understanding based on Guix's packaging guidelines (https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Packaging-Guidelines.html)is that a package should include all necessary software, libraries and resources necessary for the program to function; either directly or via dependencies. However, it appears that awscli@2.2.0 (and all former versions of the v2 variant of awscli) download a docker image and run it. This is evident by the following, where guix shell is used to run awscli@2.2.0 in a container, but docker and its daemon are not present.

I propose awscli@2.2.0 be removed immediately from guix.

Kind regards

PS: I have a packaged version of awscliv2 (2.15.6) available https://git.rekahsoft.ca/rekahsoft/rekahsoft-guix/src/branch/master/rekahsoft-gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm#L244-L329

It is still in need of some cleanup, and awscli is in an odd place (given the dependencies they vendor and fork), but it does work, and it depends on sources. This also follows closely to what nix does (see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/admin/awscli2/default.nix).

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Collin J. Doering