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		takeda on June 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why did Nix adopt Flakes? I hope that helps with nixpkgs repo as this takes a lot of time whenever it is updated.

hamandcheese on June 17, 2023 [–]

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.

hamandcheese on June 17, 2023 | [–]

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

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