On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 12:50:12PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: [...] > When some application is packaged for Linux distributions it is easier to > rebuild it with a custom patch. I suspect that a developer distributing a > snap package may use specific and not well documented build environment. I think this one is a very important point which hasn't been addressed yet in this thread: Debian packages provide not only their source, but the whole build setup to rebuild that package (and most of them in a reproducible [1] way, i.e. they yield bit-for-bit identical binaries whenever the sources and the build dependencies stay constant). I only know of two "snowflake environments" which can do that, Nix and Guix. But those are in a wholly different category as the ones discussed here. Cheers [1] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds -- t
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