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why is the build platform made part of the derivation in nixpkgs? one would argue the result should be the same regardless of the platform used to build it, and if it differs then that's an impurity to fix in the toolchain or whatever build tool is responsible, no?
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Alba 🌸 :v_pat: · 4w
hmm, but the problem is more general. even when taking build platform out of derivations, you'd still end up with massively different derivations because the build tools themselves would be different so what would be nice is if Nix had a system where derivations can substitute certain fields for ot...