No compilation, please?
No compilation, please?
Posted Jul 11, 2024 20:32 UTC (Thu) by ericproberts (guest, #139553)In reply to: No compilation, please? by Cyberax
Parent article: Nix alternatives and spinoffs
My reading of the nix philosophy pretty emphatically points to binary caches as the solution. You could use fetchurl and friends, but then you lose the connection between build instructions result. A nixpkgs of binary packages seems like having a cache but with extra steps.
Maybe there's something I'm missing. Is there a specific problem you're trying to solve?
Posted Jul 11, 2024 20:36 UTC (Thu)
by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
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No compilation, please?
I want replicable environments, but I'm fine with not getting a fully flexible specification. Something like Debian snaphsots, but more flexible.