> but with no matching source packages that I could find. This is also something that bothers me. Even Gentoo (!) gives up on building some applications and ju

> but with no matching source packages that I could find. This is also something that bothers me. Even Gentoo (!) gives up on building some applications and just redistributes upstream binaries (eg. Cassandra or Kafka), because it's too hard to actually build them. I mentioned this on the #nixos IRC channel, and they seem open to having a configuration variable to disable packages not built from source (like they currently do for non-free licenses [1]), there is just no one currently working on it. [1] https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-allow-unfree https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-allow-unfree > but really haven't considered to how to deal with the "disapearing sources" problem, including vanishing git repositories Guix does [2], and Nix is working on it in a similar way. [2] https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/connecting-reproducible-deployment-to-a-long-term-source-code-archive/ https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/connecting-reproducible-deplo...