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by aidenn0 2993 days ago
And it does a lot more work to prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot.

Docker scripts that e.g. clone a remote and build from the HEAD are not reproducible. Another example would be downloading fancysoftware-latest.tgz

Nixos will have you either pull from a specific git commit, or will hash the sources, so the default behavior is reproducible.