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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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@syn Yes, though arguably an accidental one, sort of - it's not really what the dependency system was *designed* for afaik, just a consequence of the design choices

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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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