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Re:What Is Nix? by yawaramin on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @09:17PM (#23253914)
I suspect that someone being the auditors who are suspicious of opaque binary caches and insist on building everything from scratch.
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Re:What Is Nix? by joepie91_ on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @09:20PM (#23253940)
I don't know. If that were the case, I'd imagine they would know why their build was taking hours and that it wasn't a Nix problem.
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Re:What Is Nix? by yawaramin on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @11:07PM (#23254454)
That was my reading, based on the fact that they glossed over Nix itself and attributed most of the issues to code complexity.
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Re:What Is Nix? by joepie91_ on Thursday May 21, 2020 @07:52AM (#23257293)
It explicitly says this, though:

> while much of that build time is attributable to Nix's way of building dependencies

And that part just doesn't make sense to me. I can't see any way in which specifically Nix's way of building dependencies would contribute to this. The compiling of the universe, sure, but then why mention Nix?

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Re:What Is Nix? by yawaramin on Thursday May 21, 2020 @09:07PM (#23267654)
It does say that, but it's off in its own clause, then shifts focus away from it towards what seems like the focus of the auditors.
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