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Re:Wayland on NixOS: Confusion, Conquest, Triumph by mksybr on Sunday July 02, 2023 @10:05AM (#36561590)
yes, i am fine with that personally and its hard for me to grok what benefits reproducibility in the guix sense would get me here
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Re:Wayland on NixOS: Confusion, Conquest, Triumph by rgoulter on Sunday July 02, 2023 @10:56AM (#36562015)
One example was "I want to run an old version Hugo".

In the time since running the old version of hugo, enough about the system had changed:

- The OS had changed significantly (so re-running an old build didn't work). - The compiler had changed significantly (so compiling from source would have been difficult).

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/02/28/some-notes-on-using-nix/

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Re:Wayland on NixOS: Confusion, Conquest, Triumph by mksybr on Sunday July 02, 2023 @02:18PM (#36564105)
Great example! Managing old or multiple versions of software is actually a great usecase for Guix.
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Re:Wayland on NixOS: Confusion, Conquest, Triumph by ParetoOptimal on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @10:45AM (#36601157)
> i am fine with that personally and its hard for me to grok what benefits reproducibility in the guix sense would get me here

I read this as:

> i am fine with the lack of reproducibility of apt-update personally and its hard for me to grok what benefits reproducibility in the guix sense would get me here

To which my answer is:

Guix gets you the reproducibility benefit of not having the reproducibility harming apt-update.

Does this help answer your question or confuse things more?

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