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		akho 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why We're Moving on from Nix Nix cache does provide old versions. What they seem to want is old versions built with new versions of dependencies. That's also possible, but you will have to build things.

koolala 3 months ago [–]

Patching old software with newer components? Does another tool really offer that automatically? This article is a promotion for their tool that does?

akho 3 months ago | [–]

That’s what dynamic linking does in most linux distributions.

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