[Nix-dev] understanding Nix: dependencies

[Christopher Howard]

A few questions, to help me understand how Nix works: Nix being a fully
deterministic package management system, does that mean that the exact
dependencies required by each package are fixed, i.e. do not change over
time for a specific package (version)? Does that include the
dependencies of those dependencies?

Assuming the answer to the proceeding two questions is yes, what is done
in the event that a deep dependency must be updated, while all the
higher level packages that use it do not? For example, each time openssl
is updated for security reasons, does this require you to release new
packages for hundreds of programs in your repository?

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