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by amarshall 588 days ago
Nix already has some builtin deduplication, see `man nix-store-optimise`. Nix’s own hardlinking optimization reduces disk usage of the store (for me) by 30–40%.
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jamesbfb 587 days ago
Update. Turns out PyCharm does not play nice with a plethora of symlinks. :(
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amarshall 587 days ago
Nix optimise does not use symlinks, it uses hardlinks.
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jamesbfb 588 days ago
Well, TIL. Being relatively new to nix, you’ve let me down another rabbit hole :)
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