Eelco Dolstra

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Note that `nix-store --export / --import` is pretty deprecated. Its format is undocumented and it will not have a replacement in the new CLI. It's inefficient because it copies all...

FYI, `NIX_USER_PROFILE_DIR` was recently removed (1c3ccba0f5e658fa5d593ddef8aaaf6728f945a5).

Doesn't this cause use of these inputs to be import-from-derivation? That doesn't seem desirable behaviour.

We can close this now that #3600 has been merged.

Team discussion: * This can be useful, but it can also be potentially spammy, since it will show all stdenv setup shell commands. * Maybe this should be a separate...

UIDs under 1000 are a scarce resource, so it's not ideal to allocate lots of UIDs there. (E.g. on a 128-core machine, you may want to have 128 nixbld users...)...

There is no correct way to do this, since without the database, we can't distinguish between valid and invalid paths (e.g. partial build outputs).

> Shouldn't other commands go through the schema? No, the schemas reflect what those commands do (e.g. the `nixosConfigurations` schema reflects that `nixos-rebuild` requires a `config.system.build.toplevel` attribute that evaluates to...

Hm, why does enabling the sandbox break a lot of applications?