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by callahad 1310 days ago
Not yet. There have been some efforts around adding IPFS support to Nix, as well as making its storage fully content addressable, which would allow for peer-to-peer archival and distribution of source. https://blog.ipfs.tech/2020-09-08-nix-ipfs-milestone-1/

Guix, a similar project to Nix, has been tackling this head on by automatically falling back to the Software Heritage archive when the original upstream is unavailable: https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2019/connecting-reproducible-de...