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Re:Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts by SuperSandro2000 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @09:18AM (#42711014)
Bazel is the bane of my existence. I have never seen such an anti distro tool that is so hostile against your system libraries.
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Re:Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts by eddd-ddde on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @12:18PM (#42713857)
That's the whole point, you can't rely on systems for hermetic builds.
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Re:Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts by ycombinatrix on Friday January 17, 2025 @02:46AM (#42735038)
Bazel was built for reproducible builds. Meaning it literally exists to compile stuff without using your rando sus system libraries.
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