Hm. Can you elaborate on why nix is a compromise? Nix is effectively building from source, but with lots of caching in place to avoid end users constantly havin

Hm. Can you elaborate on why nix is a compromise? Nix is effectively building from source, but with lots of caching in place to avoid end users constantly having to rebuild every last package from source. Nix and Apt are very different in this regard. >But they are ultimately about the degree to which we allow binary blobs, not whether we do. I don't agree with this assesment of Nix and Nix packages at all. My local system evaluates the package definition (a description of how to build it from source) and merely is smart enough to retrieve a prebuilt binary with the exact same source inputs and configuration. Sure, I'm still trusting the remote party to have built it as described, but that's true of any system where pre-built binaries are distributed. For another explanation, I could disable the NixOS Hydra Cache and could theoretically rebuild my current system state without their binary cache and still wind up with the exact same bits. At least, that's the idea behind Nix.