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by hobarrera 4359 days ago
This works for your goal (being able to reproduce the binary build), but in Mozilla's case it's slightly different. Being FLOSS software, Mozilla's goal is that end-users can completely reproduce the builds from source. This includes dependencies, toolchains, AND the build environment. In this scenario, accepting a pre-build binary VM would not be acceptable, since it defeats the spirit of FLOSS.