Comment by BobbyTables2

3 years ago

Worse, it enables features based on local system packages whose dependencies aren’t captured by the package dependencies.

At least for a time, this was a horrible problem in Yocto.

I think most distributions use some sort of build sandboxing at this point to avoid this problem and increase reproducibility in general right?

  • Im not aware anything else than nix and guix. Perhaps other distros build in dedicated vms / containers.