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		matthewbauer on May 16, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tarballs, the ultimate container image format Gobolinux sort of does this. The main difference is GoboLinux uses “version numbers” while Nix & Guix use hashes. It makes a lot of difference for more complicated stuff.

digi_owl on May 16, 2018 [–]

True.

I suspect there are ways to introduce hashes to Gobo, if one were so inclined. But so far nobody has.

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