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		aidenn0 on Sept 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spectrum OS: a declarative, reproducible, compartm... And a lot of those packages use autotools; I don't see the C build system as being particularly hostile to reproducible builds.

sa1 on Sept 17, 2021 [–]

Yep, and those distributions function just fine without nix. The point is that that's despite the build system rather than assisted by it.

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