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Nix is source-first, but with binary cache. Many things have to be installed again on non-NixOS because nix is hermetic - it can't use library X from underlying
by 0x457 4y ago
Nix is source-first, but with binary cache. Many things have to be installed again on non-NixOS because nix is hermetic - it can't use library X from underlying system, it has to come from nix store.
MacOS has issues with binary cache because of apple's requirement on where macOS can be run.