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Do you mean as a package maintainer or as an end user? I expect automation and reproducible builds to make this near trivial as a maintainer. As an end user bin
by l0b0 6y ago
Do you mean as a package maintainer or as an end user? I expect automation and reproducible builds to make this near trivial as a maintainer. As an end user binary diffs will be helpful (not sure if Nix supports them yet), but modern hardware and network connections can easily upgrade a thousand small packages in less than a minute.
- Foxboron 6y agoReproducible as in build environments or deterministic binaries? Nix has only reproducible build environments. Package maintainer. For the end-user there is no practical difference between a container and nix, and you see how well the container ecosystem is currently handling security updates on their distributed images. The problem is not distributing the fix, it's getting the fix patched.