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> Please educate yourself. Unless you substantiate it, this is not a constructive response. (To take a stab at a useful answer: Being able to perfectly reprod
by yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
> Please educate yourself.
Unless you substantiate it, this is not a constructive response.
(To take a stab at a useful answer: Being able to perfectly reproduce a system is actually quite helpful when changing things, because the easier it is to roll back the safer it is to roll forward.)
- vinceguidry 1y agoIt would be helpful, if it were possible. But an operating system consists of thousands of independently changeable components, any of which can stop being available at any time. You'd have to vendor all your dependencies for your builds to truly be reproducible. The Arch system is flexible and is designed to account for this. It offers something better than reproducibility imo.
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago> But an operating system consists of thousands of independently changeable components, any of which can stop being available at any time. You'd have to vendor all your dependencies for your builds to truly be reproducible. Er, yeah, that's why NixOS, like many distros, keeps public archives of packages and their source (see the discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36261492 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36261492 )
- vinceguidry 1y agoDidn't know that, thanks! Won't get me off Arch. Wait. There's one thing that might sway me. Do they offer a systemd-less option? Edit: found it: https://codeberg.org/amjoseph/sixos https://codeberg.org/amjoseph/sixos Too new to rely on, sadly. Maybe in a few years.