[Diti]

Installing every single Nix package is a piece of cake. Just run nix-env -i without argument.

Nix has been behaving that way for at least 8 years: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/308

[jonringer117]

Oh, nix-env.... The tool which attempted to bridge the worlds of nix and traditional package managers. But has all of the quirks of both.