Rebuilding is cheap, especially when NixOS's hydra does it for you. For most typical use cases, where you're just using distro packages, you will get the latest

Rebuilding is cheap, especially when NixOS's hydra does it for you. For most typical use cases, where you're just using distro packages, you will get the latest updates (including shared dependency updates) straight from hydra. There's no need to recompile, and I'm not sure why compilation is even being brought up here