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> However, the VSCode binary is not FLOSS so you cannot be sure what it is running.

That's equally true of the VSCodium binary. It's not a reproducible build, I have no way of knowing from which source code the binary was generated.

Of course I could build from source, but VSCodium is just VSCode built from source with a build flag set. So in this regard it's not contributing anything notable (and doesn't claim so either).



Why is it not possible to build VSCodium in a reproducible way? Does it download packages while building?


I think this kind of reproducible:

* https://reproducible-builds.org

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducible_builds

Sorry, but I don't think I am qualified to explain clearly




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