[Nix-dev] why has each revision / generation not a own configuration.nix

[Leo Gaspard]

On 05/13/2017 05:28 AM, Stefan Huchler wrote:
> [...]
> Do you know the reason why it defaults to false, cant think of any
> disadvantage of that functionality. I mean nixos eats harddrive like
> nearly no other distro. So saving space cant be the reason.
> 
> Some sort of privacy concern?

With https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/8 solved, there will be
possibility to have password in the configuration that won't be
world-readable. In this context, copying the configuration.nix would
make world-readable again, which in case of passwords can hurt security
a lot.

At least that's the only reason I can think of.

HTH,
Leo

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