Andrew Helwer on Nostr: My understanding of :guix: and :nixos: are that they declare the versions of ...
My understanding of
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are that they declare the versions of absolutely everything & their transitive dependency graphs, all the way down the compiler versions used to build a specific software commit. But how do they handle bootstrapping compilers?
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