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What does high degree mean? Either you achieve bit for bit reproducibility of your builds or not.

• kfajdsl 1y ago
  If 99% of the packages in your repos are bit-for-bit reproducible, you can consider your distro to have a high degree of reproducibility.
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  • pxc 1y ago
    And with even a little bit of imagination, it's easy to think of other possible measures of degrees of reproducibility, e.g.: • % of deployed systems which consist only of reproducibly built packages • % of commonly downloaded disk images (install media, live media, VM images, etc.) consist only of reproducibly built packages • total # of reproducibly built packages available • comparative measures of what NixOS is doing right like: of packages that are reproducibly built in some distros but not others, how many are built reproducibly in NixOS • binary bootstrap size (smaller is better, obviously) It's really not difficult to think of meaningful ways that reproducibility of different distros might be compared, even quantitatively.