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Mozilla doesn't provide binary packages for all architectures and OSs supported by Nix/NixOS Maintainers also sometimes need to patch software to conform to th
by progval 7y ago
Mozilla doesn't provide binary packages for all architectures and OSs supported by Nix/NixOS
Maintainers also sometimes need to patch software to conform to their distribution's norm. For example, Debian patches it to accept extensions installed with APT.
And I'm glad distribution maintainers always recompile software themselves, it helps making sure:
1. binaries are really made from the open source code (I know, it's not bullet-proof)
2. it's actually humanly possible to actually compile it from source (my pet peeve in this area is Kafka: it's used everywhere, but no one seems to know how to actually fully compile it from sources anymore)
- danieldk 7y agoI fully agree. It should be said that nixpkgs also provides the firefox-bin derivation, which is just want the grandparent suggested. But there is a lot of value in checking that software builds are actually reproducible from the sources.
- BlueTemplar 7y ago> Kafka Name checks out...