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GNU Guix: How to run foreign binaries
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Right, yeah, so there's occasionally a bit more jumping through hoops, but the end result is a much more manageable system where eg. updating thing X won't clobber the fuck out of dependencies that thing Y needed, and in general you get a more "containerised" setup with a declarative way to set it up?
What's the upside of Guix vs Nix (except eg. the syntax that @tetris11@lemmy.ml mentioned)?
There's also the fully reproducible build starting from a 357 byte seed file (cpu-specific) + guile library, to generate a full blown fully reproducible OS
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-from-source-all-the-way-down/
Huh. Not only is that pretty neat from a nerdy "they did what?" perspective, having a fully reproducible OS setup is definitely very useful in many contexts. No surprise that the first blog post of that series references the classic Thompson Reflections on Trusting Trust paper about his cc backdoor
Yeah, that trusting trust paper really opened my eyes on how compiler development works through a series of hacks