3 ms·

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%.

• jamesbfb 2y ago
  Well, TIL. Being relatively new to nix, you’ve let me down another rabbit hole :)
• jamesbfb 2y ago
  Update. Turns out PyCharm does not play nice with a plethora of symlinks. :(
  • amarshall 2y ago
    Nix optimise does not use symlinks, it uses hardlinks.