Re: Nixpkgs stdenv upgrade

[Ludovic Courtès]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> You may want to increment grep to the 4-day-old 2.11.
>>
>> Well no :-), as this would entail a full rebuild of the distro.
>
> Oh!  I didn't know updating one tool would require rebuilding
> all of them.  In that case, it's obviously not worthwhile.

Yeah.  This is a consequence of how Nix works to achieve build
reproducibility.  There’s some background at <http://nixos.org/nix/>.

Thanks,
Ludo’.