>On 31 August 2014 18:27, Michael Raskin <7c6f4...@mail.ru> wrote: >> I'd say, though, that only name-based operations drop in performance >> that way… >> >> Although for some strange reason we still recommend this way of using >> Nix. > >Nix newb asks: what would be the superiour alternative, then?
nix-env -iA insted of nix-env -i The difference is that you use attribute name, not package name; lookup by attribute name allows to read only all-packages.nix and relevant sources, not entire NixPkgs tree. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
