[Nix-dev] "Package archeology" in nixpkgs

[Michael Raskin]

>> How do people feel about this? Is it something I should maintain
>> independently of nixpkgs or does it belong in the main repo?
>
>... please keep it out of the main Nixpkgs, at least for now.  Reason
>is that currently Nix performance drops linearly with the number of
>packages.  Until we have a caching solution of some sort, I'd prefer to
>keep Nixpkgs slim.

I'd say, though, that only name-based operations drop in performance 
that way…

Although for some strange reason we still recommend this way of using 
Nix.