No compilation, please?

Posted Jul 12, 2024 22:33 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: No compilation, please? by bauermann
Parent article: Nix alternatives and spinoffs

> The principle of Nix/Guix/etc is that the inputs to a package build are painstakingly tracked so that if anything changes in any of the inputs (or the inputs' inputs, etc down to the last turtle) then a new build is made. Which is why changes deep in the dependency graph trickle down to everything. Eelco Dolstra's PhD thesis has the details. It's an interesting read.

I haven't looked ... but that is a plentiful source of gentoo bugs I suspect. I'm sure I've been bitten by missed dependencies in the ebuilds, I've seen bug reports ... and of course, they're a right pain to actually track down because they're obscure and don't bite that many people.

Cheers,
Wol