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It's not reproducible then, it's simply cached. It's a valid approach but there's tradeoffs of course.

• verdverm 8mo ago
  it's not an either or, it can be reproducible and cached similarly, nix cannot guarantee reproducibility if the user does things to break that possibility
  • xyzzy_plugh 8mo ago
    The difference is that you can blow the Nix cache away and reproduce it entirely. The same cannot be said for Docker.
    • verdverm 8mo ago
      That's not true Docker has a `--no-cache` flag, even easier than blowing it away, which you can also do with several built in commands or a rm -rf /var/lib/docker Perhaps worth revisiting: https://docs.docker.com/build/cache/ https://docs.docker.com/build/cache/
      • mkesper 8mo ago
        That will rebuild the cache from upstream but not reproducibly.