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You guys keep saying this word "reproducibility" but I don't think you know what it means. Debian and Arch are more reproducible than NixOS.
by temptemptemp111 3y ago
You guys keep saying this word "reproducibility" but I don't think you know what it means. Debian and Arch are more reproducible than NixOS.
- klysm 3y agoIn what sense? I don’t think you’ve helped clarify your definition at all
- rgoulter 3y agoProbably "reproducible" as in "reproducible build" https://reproducible-builds.org/ https://reproducible-builds.org/
- klysm 3y agoYea but nixos has reproducible builds
- temptemptemp111 3y ago[dead]
- rgoulter 3y agoThe term 'reproducible' in 'reproducible build' (https://reproducible-builds.org/ https://reproducible-builds.org/) conveys "bit-for-bit identical output". -- The benefit of that is security; others can compile the same sources and check that they get the same binaries. But more generally, 'reproduce' just means 'create the same thing again'. Nix uses "reproducible" in a more general sense: you provide the same inputs, and you'll get a program which behaves the same way, regardless of whether you compiled from source or downloaded binaries from a cache. IMO, I think "reproducible build" is enough to unambiguously refer to the former. But, if you can think of a nicer word for "you get the same behavior from the same inputs" than "reproducible", it would be worth suggesting.
- temptemptemp111 3y ago[dead]