NixOS for the Impatient

Re:NixOS for the Impatient by 0zemp3c on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:37PM (#36263009)

nixos for the REALLY impatient:

its a giant pile of symlinks

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Re:NixOS for the Impatient by outofpaper on Friday June 09, 2023 @04:04PM (#36263402)

Well at least it's not a pile of hardlinks like apple's time machine. Actually that might be an interesting option for an OS... constant versioning.

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Re:NixOS for the Impatient by aidenn0 on Friday June 09, 2023 @04:26PM (#36263690)

FWIW, you can repack the nix-store to be a pile of hardlinks...

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Re:NixOS for the Impatient by tormeh on Friday June 09, 2023 @09:56PM (#36266786)

Isn’t it mostly environment variables?

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Re:NixOS for the Impatient by kaba0 on Saturday June 10, 2023 @05:35AM (#36269038)

Arguably the most important part of Nix is the fixed hashed output of everything, and these fixed /nix/store/hash-lib entries being used for dynamic linking.

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