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my understanding is that most nix/guix users don't compile (most) packages themselves but download them from a binary cache. why not would be for obvious security reasons but at least on the guix side there's a subcommand to compare build hashes from various mirrors you trust: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-chall...


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