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tnzm
on April 9, 2021
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Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit
When I run `nixos-rebuild switch --verbose`, it does seem to go through the entirety of nixpkgs. Especially noticeable on a RPi with its slow I/O.
arianvanp
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It's not true that it pulls in everything. It's just that a nixos installation pulls in a lot of transitive code =). It actually pulls all of this in lazily and lazily evaluates it; but it's just a lot of code and nix evaluator isn't that fast.
kaba0
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That’s just evaluation. The next bigger change in nix itself will likely be the ability to better cache evaluations, significantly speeding up this.
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