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> But unfortunately *nix programs are not written to support this, so you see lots of hacks in Nix to get things to work. You might have said the same thing ab
by progval 7y ago
> But unfortunately *nix programs are not written to support this, so you see lots of hacks in Nix to get things to work.
You might have said the same thing about the Reproducible Builds project [1] early on. It was a project inside Debian, that required a modified toolchain (gcc, autotools, etc.) on top of Debian Unstable; and many individual Debian packages needed patches as well.
Years later, these toolchain changes are now merged not only in main Debian, but also in other distributions and in upstream software.
[1] https://reproducible-builds.org/ https://reproducible-builds.org/