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From: | David Craven |
Subject: | Re: Guix-devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 133 |
Date: | Thu, 21 Jul 2016 18:02:45 +0200 |
> USE flags a la Gentoo are not compatible with Guix because it means > that package expressions are no longer self-contained and rely upon > external global state. That means that builds are no longer > deterministic. Build determinism is only relevant for binary caching so if someone changes the default USE flags then he's building the packages him/herself. Using different USE flags also would yield a different build script so the mapping from .drv => binary would still be deterministic.
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