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> The sense you're thinking of is that you can easily rebuild a binary package and it will use the same dependency versions, build options, etc. There should be no chance of a compiler error that didn't happen the first time (the old "but it worked on my laptop" syndrome).

And that's just for Nixpkgs, the packages themselves that also work outside NixOS. NixOS has reproducibility of the entire system complete with configuration.




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