[Nix-dev] nix-build -A <pkgs> builds everything

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 19/11/15 16:10, Guillaume Maudoux (Layus) wrote:

> Neat trick.
> 
> Am I right however to say that this does not work if your own channel is
> not up to date.

It does work (in that you always get binaries from the cache), but it might
download more stuff than if you match your current NixOS version (since in that
case you can expect some stuff to already be present in your Nix store).

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Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/