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Re:Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts by theossuary on Sunday January 12, 2025 @10:58AM (#42674436)
I guess you could consider a docker image a "reproducible environment," but it's certainly not a reproducible build; running docker build twice on the same directory isn't guaranteed to give you the same image. You could put in the work to make it a reproducible build, but it doesn't do anything to help you achieve that. Nix defaults to reproducible builds, and requires flags for "impure" non-reproducible builds. It does this by requiring all dependencies be managed by nix, and all sources be copied into the nix store.

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