Re: On commit access, patch review, and remaining healthy

[Ricardo Wurmus]

> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 14:27:44 +0200
> From: Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>
> To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>, Guix Devel
>       <guix-devel@gnu.org>
> Cc: GNU Guix maintainers <guix-maintainers@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: On commit access, patch review, and remaining healthy
> Message-ID: <87o7z0itz3.fsf@xelera.eu>
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>> - 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