| 20 Sep 2023 |
 Atemu | As trofi mentioned, it breaks the ability to construct the same source path from any source as long as it's the same content | 10:53:46 |
| Atemu | Because in addition to the content you must have a matching epoch | 10:53:59 |
 raboof | I see your point - 'same' is a tricky concept 😃. The widespread abuse of SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in nixpkgs (setting it to a meaningless constant) irks me though, and "that's just the way it is in Nix" is not a very satisfying answer if we want to claim to be forerunners in reproducibility ;) | 11:00:55 |
| raboof | * I see your point - 'same' is a tricky concept 😃. The widespread abuse of SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in nixpkgs (setting it to a meaningless constant) irks me though, and "that's just the way it is in nixpkgs" is not a very satisfying answer if we want to claim to be forerunners in reproducibility ;) | 11:01:18 |
