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Nix needs relocatable binaries

Quality: 9/10 Relevance: 9/10

Summary

The article discusses Nix store-based packaging and the challenge of making binaries relocatable without changing hashes. It analyzes how store prefixes affect derivations, explores RUNPATH and PT_INTERP limitations, and proposes kernel and tooling approaches to enable relocatable binaries, including metadata augmentation.

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