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0 pointshamandcheese2y ago0 comments

I don't think it will. There isn't any good way to incrementally fetch remote nix files, so to use nixpkgs it all has to be downloaded and unpacked.

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Unless you mean when developing on the nixpkgs repo, in which case it could help.

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0 pointshamandcheese2y ago0 comments

I don't think it will. There isn't any good way to incrementally fetch remote nix files, so to use nixpkgs it all has to be downloaded and unpacked.

Unless you mean when developing on the nixpkgs repo, in which case it could help.

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