mei on Nostr: nprofile1q…qrcc0 mae(Uppercase) it doesn't unless it has to, but it can ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqdhnn6acp8d933rcmkrw8vceqfhyfr26jw4a9katmwqhqelwkc50swqrcc0 (nprofile…rcc0) mae(Uppercase) (nprofile…2aya) it doesn't unless it has to, but it can transparently choose between building from source and pulling a binary from cache, because everything that could've possibly affected the build is accounted for.

so, as long as you trust your cache (buildfarm), you can transparently pull in binaries when available but fallback to a source build if your config does something weird like "thisPackage.butMakeTheCompiler beClangInstead" or you check out an old nixpkgs that isn't cached anymore