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Yeah, it definitely works, and nix works around the problem, and lets you, the user, install the packages, but the builds are not guaranteed to be reproducible.

• aidenn0 5y ago
  They are as reproducible as you can get with C builds and far more reproducible than most other build systems across many different languages. https://r13y.com/ https://r13y.com/
  • sa1 5y ago
    Yeah, that's the point, as far as you can get with C builds isn't far enough. We're criticizing C build systems here, not nix.
    • aidenn0 5y ago
      I mean is there a build system not named "bazel" that does a better job of making reproducible builds than a C autoconf project built with Nix?
      • gilgad13 5y ago
        There's a lot of wiggle room in "better", but there are a decent number of distros for which ~95% of the packages are built in a reproducible way, including Debian, Arch, and Yocto: https://reproducible-builds.org/citests/ https://reproducible-builds.org/citests/
        • aidenn0 5y ago
          And a lot of those packages use autotools; I don't see the C build system as being particularly hostile to reproducible builds.
          • sa1 5y ago
            Yep, and those distributions function just fine without nix. The point is that that's despite the build system rather than assisted by it.