Pierre Neidhardt <m...@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes: > >> It’s one thing to install all files that the plain text database says >> should be installed. They all exist in the SVN repo. It’s quite >> another to generate them all from their respective sources. > > Nix separates them all, it provides the 2000+ packages. This does not contradict what I wrote. *Building* the packages differs from just copying the generated files to their expected locations. I doubt Nix actually generates all these files from source. -- Ricardo