[Nix-dev] Nar doesn't support hardlinks? (was: [NixOS/nixpkgs] 1f2228: tzdata: use symlinks instead of hardlinks)

[Peter Simons]

Mihaly Barasz writes:

 > tzdata: use symlinks instead of hardlinks
 >
 > Hard links are not handled by nar, so installing from binary cache
 > unnecessarily duplicates data.

Huh? Nar archives cannot handle hardlinks? That comes as quite a
surprise to me. Are you sure about that?

Best regards,
Peter