Isolating aspects of the original mail:

On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:36:20 +0200, Florian Friesdorf <f...@chaoflow.net> wrote:
> If ./bin/python is a symlink, we have currently a problem and PYTHONHOME
> would be a solution, if python is a real file, we do not have a problem.
> 
> So instead of symlinking the python executable, nix-env should be instructed
> to hard-link it - is this possible?

Why is nix using symlinks to link files in the nix store?
Would switching to hardlinks break something?

- symlinks in case of whole directories
- hardlinks for individual files

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