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>Forcing every user to build everything from source every time >We don't want it so that everyone is forced to build everything from scratch every time. I bel

• corysama 10y ago
  When two programmers argue and both think the other sounds crazy, it's usually because they are saying the same words but meaning different things. SwellJoe: Go back and substitute "source verifiable" every time davexunit says "reproducible" and everything he says makes sense. davexunit: Read everyone else's comments from the POV where "reproducible" mean "reliable bitwise replication" without consideration of scientifically reproducible experiments or source verification, and everything they say makes sense.
• SwellJoe 10y ago
  I believe several people were confused by your statement. So, at least I'm not alone. I interpreted your statement of "Using pre-compiled binaries means that builds aren't reproducible, a goal of both Nix and Guix" to mean, "Guix does not distribute pre-compiled binaries, because they can't be reproduced". That still seems an entirely reasonable interpretation of that sentence, to me, as someone with no familiarity with Guix. But, I now see that your intended meaning was that Guix does not distribute stuff like nvidia blobs, or Flash player, which is a perfectly reasonable choice for them, and nothing less than I would expect of a GNU project (and Fedora, my current favorite desktop distro, has the same policy, so I don't have a problem with it).