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Comment by d3Xt3r

> If you insert a readme as an input to a derivation that does a build, nix will assume that the compiled binary depends on it and when you fix a typo in the readme and rebuild you'll end up with a duplicate binary build in the nix store despite the contents of the binary not actually depending on the text of the readme.

One my issues with Nix is the black box that is the store, and maybe it's just my system, but over time I find it full of redundant files / orphans and no obvious way to flatten it or clean it safely without breaking something.

I wonder how flox solves this.

parent d3Xt3r 11 months ago

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