[Nix-dev] Re: Toward a Purer stdenv

[Marc Weber]

Excerpts from Yury G. Kudryashov's message of Wed Aug 17 22:21:21 +0200 2011:
> > - the store location (for completeness)
> This is OK since changing store path changes all hashes. But
For one package I had to change a generated file resulting in a crash
because I didn't change the length field accordingly. It was kind of
3 abc where 3 is string length and abc is string contents.

Not everything which can go wrong is equally likely to go wrong.

I agree that tmp dir, building user name etc are unlikely to cause
trouble. Same about impact by graphic cards (unless you build
scientific packages using graphic card for calculation)

Marc Weber