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>How are images built with Paketo Buildpacks different from Docker images? Unlike Docker images, images built from Paketo Buildpacks are OCI compliant.

Can someone explain why this is significant - I'm struggling to wrap my head around the why

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The OCI image format is a standardization of the Docker v2 image format, but they are generally compatible and interchangeable. That FAQ entry is misleading and slipped past the engineering team working on the project. Just removed it :)

Docker's v2 image format was the starting point for OCI, which is a later standard (and: actually a standard with multiple implementations, rather than a single implementation).

This is much more noticeable when you run into Docker v1 and Docker v2 images. They're quite different under the hood. In particular it means that OCI images can perform "layer rebasing" and "cross-repository blob mounting". Updating a layer of an image goes from O(n) to O(1).

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