Eelco Dolstra

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You can set `tarball-ttl = 0` in your `nix.conf` if you don't want caching. But I don't think that should be the default, since it would make almost every Nix...

Problem is that it already takes 40 minutes or so to test a PR. Building the installer for all platforms (even if we could get that to work with GitHub...

The downside of this approach is that every concurrent Nix derivation will use up to 8 parallel jobs, without regard to load. Maybe the best solution is to make the...

@layus Yes, many tests currently fail.

@icetan Yeah, subflakes are broken, I'll fix it.

> This PR will speed up the development environment a lot when using https://github.com/edolstra/flake-compat with https://github.com/arrterian/nix-env-selector It won't unfortunately, because this PR doesn't change the behaviour of `fetchGit` etc. They...

> Behaviour difference: in 2.8.1 nix flake archive in a git repo will archive the dirty tree, while with lazy-trees it will copy the state of HEAD. I think HEAD...

This shows the charts from the various Nixpkgs/NixOS evaluation tests: https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nix/master/metrics.nixpkgs#tabs-charts. Obviously not many data points yet.

Yes, it's a machine provided by @vcunat that runs only one job at a time.

I'm not sure we should do this. It gives the flake file format a hard dependency on our current simplistic concept of systems (i.e. simple strings like "x86_64-linux"), which doesn't...