Funnily enough, NixOS has had its initial release in the same year as Gobolinux, 2003. I'm not sure how Gobolinux organizes files exactly, but with NixOS, the

Funnily enough, NixOS has had its initial release in the same year as Gobolinux, 2003. I'm not sure how Gobolinux organizes files exactly, but with NixOS, the hash in /nix/store/<hash>-packagename is produced by combining every input that might influence the package. By input I mean for example: - The source: git revision / source url / etc. - All dependencies, which means if a dependency of a dependency of this package changes, it gets a new hash - Build instructions, including build flags This wouldn't be possible with a more conventional file structure.