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It occurs to me that a lot of distros probably have a lot of already-built packages that involved one of the suspicious xz versions in their build process, and I don't know that they all have the tooling to track which packages need to be rebuilt...
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@joepie91 another nixos w
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@joepie91 I'd argue that "exact input tracking" is very much an explicit design goal
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@syn Yes, but not for the specific purpose of knowing what packages to rebuild if a backdoor were ever discovered
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@syn (It's kind of hard to classify these things because Nix is in a category of software where "benefits we didn't anticipate" are expected as a category, it's just not known which benefits they will be)