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by treis 1665 days ago
That's not really what a reproducible build is though. Reproducible builds are you get the exact same thing from your build script today or three weeks for now. Getting unexpected changes with an updated dependency is a different problem than not having a reproducible build.
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Fair, but its still a real issue and solved in a similar way: Nix has finer grained reproducibility -- not only at the environment level but also at the derivation level. Being able to pick and choose which dependencies to update while ensuring other packages are left exactly the same is valuable to us.