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The builds are not guaranteed to be reproducible.

• iammisc 5y ago
  Nix doesn't guarantee reproducible builds. That's why there's a whole signing framework
  • sa1 5y ago
    There is no disagreement there. Reproducibility is definitely a goal though. I don't really understand your line of argument.
    • iammisc 5y ago
      It's a goal but not a fundamental design requirement for nix packages. It seemed like you were implying that you had to make nix builds reproducible in order to get them working with nixpkgs, which wluld greatly complicate things.
      • sa1 5y ago
        Yeah, if every language had their build systems in order, we wouldn't have needed nix as much, so definitely grateful for what nix does. But some problems can only be elegantly solved a level below nix.