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Yes, using binaries is a different issue to software freedom. For example, the Haskell toolchain in nixpkgs downloads pre-compiled binaries of old GHC versions
by chriswarbo 10y ago
Yes, using binaries is a different issue to software freedom.
For example, the Haskell toolchain in nixpkgs downloads pre-compiled binaries of old GHC versions (7.0.4 and 7.4.2) which it uses to bootstrap the newer versions.
The binaries are checksummed to ensure reproducibility.