[Nix-dev] How do you work on big packages?

[Profpatsch]

On 17-03-17 05:34pm, Dmitry Kalinkin wrote:
> Also it is funny how your statement is followed by some good advice on how to
> turn nix into even better dev platform. I will only add that one could also
> use ccache to speedup builds:
> 
> my_cool_package.override { stdenv = pkgs.ccacheStdenv; }

Caches will burn you.
You should never mix non-deterministic caching with deployment.
There’s just no way it will work out in all cases.

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