[Nix-dev] nix store: hardlink vs symlink (was Re: python application vs python environment)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Florian,

Florian Friesdorf <flo at chaoflow.net> skribis:

> If now two derivations are put
> together into a new derivation, their components will be symlinked and
> here, as I understand now, hardlinks are not an option because nix uses
> the symlinks to store information about dependencies.

Yes, the garbage collector is conservative, and it needs to see those
store paths to determine that there’s a dependency.

Ludo’.