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Re:Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts by XorNot on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @10:45PM (#42707081)
The issue is it's why are you trying to be reproducible. The best use case is proving authenticity: that the source code became the binary code as written, but we're so far away from that that it's not realistic.

My dream system would be CI which gives me a gigantic object graph and can sign the source code from the ground up for every single thing including the compiler, so when a change happens you can drill down to what changed, and what the diffs were.

Re:Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts by andreasmetsala on Saturday January 18, 2025 @04:18AM (#42746984)