[Nix-dev] Why does my system rebuild rustc and cargo?

Matthias Beyer mail at beyermatthias.de
Sat Nov 21 16:30:41 CET 2015


After switching from rustPlatform.{rustc, cargo} to
rustUnstable.{rustc, cargo} it worked.

All of

    rustPlatform
    rustStable
    rustCargoPlatform

etc. caused a rebuild of rustc.

Why the hell?

On 20-11-2015 19:27:16, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> On 20-11-2015 16:03:13, Thomas Hunger wrote:
> > Can you expand a bit on what "all the time" means? After a nix-channel
> > --update? When you install it with nix-env? Maybe when you reference rustc
> > in a nix-shell?
> > 
> > best,
> 
> I'm on unstable and whenever I enter a nix-shell with rustPlatform.{rustc,cargo}
> it rebuilds them.
> 
> -- 
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
> Kind regards,
> Matthias Beyer
> 
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Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Kind regards,
Matthias Beyer

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