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Posted Nov 25, 2025 11:37 UTC (Tue) by SLi (subscriber, #53131)
In reply to: Shared libraries by hunger
Parent article: APT Rust requirement raises questions

> There is a reason why most distros rebuild binaries when the dependencies change.

The claim that this is not sustainable for Debian also seems strange, given that a lot of distros do manage to do it (including non-commercial ones like NixOS).

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Posted Nov 25, 2025 15:02 UTC (Tue) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118) [Link] (1 responses)

> The claim that this is not sustainable for Debian also seems strange, given that a lot of distros do manage to do it (including non-commercial ones like NixOS).

> given that a lot of distros do manage to do it (including non-commercial ones like NixOS).

NixOS is only managing to do it because commercial sponsors dump relatively huge money into operation of their CI and binary cache.

Same also goes for other "non-commercial" distros — if you look closer, you'll find they all have commercial sponsors subsidizing the infrastructure.

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Posted Nov 25, 2025 18:49 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Gentoo also exists, btw. And it doesn't appear to have many corporate sponsors.