[Nix-dev] Nar doesn't support hardlinks? (was: [NixOS/nixpkgs] 1f2228: tzdata: use symlinks instead of hardlinks)
Peter Simons
simons at cryp.to
Tue Apr 29 16:34:59 CEST 2014
Mihaly Barasz writes:
> tzdata: use symlinks instead of hardlinks
>
> Hard links are not handled by nar, so installing from binary cache
> unnecessarily duplicates data.
Huh? Nar archives cannot handle hardlinks? That comes as quite a
surprise to me. Are you sure about that?
Best regards,
Peter
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