> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 14:27:44 +0200 > From: Giovanni Biscuolo <[email protected]> > To: Arun Isaac <[email protected]>, Guix Devel > <[email protected]> > Cc: GNU Guix maintainers <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: On commit access, patch review, and remaining healthy > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > >> - We build strictly from source. > > This is also a requirement now adopted by many other distributions, at > least all the ones in https://reproducible-builds.org/who/projects/
NixOS is on the list, but they don’t have this requirement. That’s why they have Java packages that are little more than the upstream jars, or have packages with bundled dependencies (e.g. vendored jars). -- Ricardo
