[Nix-dev] why has each revision / generation not a own configuration.nix

Danylo Hlynskyi abcz2.uprola at gmail.com
Sat May 13 07:33:12 CEST 2017


Anotther solution shown in
https://mailman.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2017-April/023403.html
which has an advantage of copying related modules (assuming they belong to
same folder as configuration.nix)

2017-05-13 6:28 GMT+03:00 Stefan Huchler <stefan.huchler at mail.de>:

> Tomasz Czyż <tomasz.czyz at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html#configuration+copy
>
> Thanks nice, could not belive that I am the first "genieus" that thought
> on that.
>
> Do you know the reason why it defaults to false, cant think of any
> disadvantage of that functionality. I mean nixos eats harddrive like
> nearly no other distro. So saving space cant be the reason.
>
> Some sort of privacy concern?
>
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