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by OJFord 1546 days ago
Whether you have a separate base or not, it relies on you keeping an old image.

The advantage a separate base has is allowing you to continue to update your code on top of it, even while the new bases are broken.

You could still do that without it though, just by forking out of the single image at the appropriate layer. Not as easy, but how often does it happen?