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> Linux headers and header updates are also decoupled from kernel packages in NixOS Huh indeed you are right. I just confirmed that commenting out this line in
by est31 6y ago
> Linux headers and header updates are also decoupled from kernel packages in NixOS
Huh indeed you are right. I just confirmed that commenting out this line in my configuration.nix:
boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_latest;
Causing a version change of the kernel from 5.9.16 to 5.4.91, only updates very few packages. The list of packages: linux-modules, firmware, linux-modules-shrunk, etc-nixos.conf, kernel-modules, etc, stage-1-init.sh, initrd-linux-5.4.91
Which is quite small. And only 62.81 MiB to download, almost nothing for NixOS.
> If you run unstable.
Actually I run stable Nix OS (with KDE Plasma as DE). Still there is a lot of download traffic. Those gigabytes I am referring to are from the stable version :). Just ran nix-collect-garbage, got to delete 11 GB in 3348 store paths :p.
- danieldk 6y agoActually I run stable Nix OS (with KDE Plasma as DE). Still there is a lot of download traffic. Those gigabytes I am referring to are from the stable version :). Just ran nix-collect-garbage, got to delete 11 GB in 3348 store paths :p. Wow, I guess I see less traffic because I run stable on servers.