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yes, i am fine with that personally and its hard for me to grok what benefits reproducibility in the guix sense would get me here
by mksybr 3y ago
yes, i am fine with that personally and its hard for me to grok what benefits reproducibility in the guix sense would get me here
- rgoulter 3y agoOne example was "I want to run an old version of Hugo". In the time since running the old version of hugo, enough about the system had changed: - The OS had changed significantly (so re-running an old build didn't work). - The compiler had changed significantly (so compiling from source would have been difficult). https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/02/28/some-notes-on-using-nix/ https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/02/28/some-notes-on-using-nix/
- mksybr 3y agoGreat example! Managing old or multiple versions of software is actually a great usecase for Guix.
- ParetoOptimal 3y ago> i am fine with that personally and its hard for me to grok what benefits reproducibility in the guix sense would get me here I read this as: > i am fine with the lack of reproducibility of apt-update personally and its hard for me to grok what benefits reproducibility in the guix sense would get me here To which my answer is: Guix gets you the reproducibility benefit of not having the reproducibility harming apt-update. Does this help answer your question or confuse things more?