Re: NPM and trusted binaries

[Mike Gerwitz]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 18:50:48 +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 11:48:04AM -0400, Thompson, David wrote:
>> This violates a core principle of Guix: reproducible builds.  I don't
>> support patches that encourage using pre-built binaries.
>
> In principle I agree. We want to be able to read the code.
>
> Still, I think Guix would benefit from a somewhat more relaxed stance
> in this.

If a user is able to build from source, shouldn't Guix be able to?  And
if neither can, how can we guarantee that the provided binary is even
free and actually corresponds to the given source?

From a software freedom perspective, the source code _is_ the
program.  If that is unworkable, then so is the software itself.

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