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So if it's not reproducable, what is it good for? To recreate similar environment easily?

• ranguna 2y ago
  I've never tried nixos, but I'm very close to trying. For me the good points are what you said + having the full configuration of my system in a single place (no more looking at the bash history to understand what I did) and easy rollbacks (no more having to boot into a live usb to fix my broken system).
• viraptor 2y ago
  The "reproducible" as in the strict definition and reproducible for practical developer are different concepts. While bit-level reproducibility impacts everyone in some small way, normally devs care about whether the same versions are deployed everywhere and work the same for everyone. They ignore issues like function A being before function B in their shared library, but B before A on their coworker's machine. Or the fact that some debug symbol contains a timestamp. In general it's good for declarative management of systems and projects that can be deployed in a repeatable (even if not 100% reproducible) way.
• paulddraper 2y ago
  It is reproducible only with a narrow definition. Usually "deterministic" is used instead to describe this.