Drift. Nix (effectively) does not mutate in-place, it rebuilds and links. Delete a target from that Makefile and it doesn’t actually remove that thing. It’s the

Drift. Nix (effectively) does not mutate in-place, it rebuilds and links. Delete a target from that Makefile and it doesn’t actually remove that thing. It’s the same problem Ansible etc. have. It’s not till actually fully reinstalling the OS that all the implicit dependencies reveal themselves. Sure one can write “clean” targets but the point of Nix is that such manual management is unneeded.