> it assumes that every machine is build-capable It doesn't, fortunately. You can tell Nix to rely exclusively on the binary cache, or configure it to have 0 b

> it assumes that every machine is build-capable It doesn't, fortunately. You can tell Nix to rely exclusively on the binary cache, or configure it to have 0 build threads locally and use remote builders. For a server deployment, many popular choices don't have the server build anything, and in some cases it may not even have any users who are allowed to invoke `nix-*` or anything.