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How the xz backdoor highlights a major flaw in Nix | Shade's Blog (shadeyg56.vercel.app)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's a nice idea in theory but not possible in practice as the last Nixpkgs revision without a tainted version of xz is many months old. You'd trade one CVE for dozens of others.