Naïm Camille Favier

I am talking about processing, not generation. I guess what we're doing isn't even specific to paths. `complete -W 'test/abc test/xyz' foo` already seems to do the right thing, why...

> If there is anything built in Bash that can be used to implement this conditional reduction in a simple way, I'm not reluctant to switch to it. I mean,...

Ah, I see what you mean, we're reducing the list of options shown. That makes sense.

This PR does seem to improve the time `nix-index` takes: ``` # before real 9m13.026s user 7m36.327s sys 0m28.164s # after real 7m53.152s user 9m7.771s sys 0m25.164s ``` @enolan how...

cc @rycee, I still think this change is good

I've removed the other change, added a comment and rebased on master. Also note that we're already using `ln -T`: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/blob/c1a830c8fabb13f95f51ecf48552f0a794d8718a/modules/files.nix#L274

Why not `extraConfig = mkBefore ...`?

Sorry for the delay, could you rebase this PR on master and resolve the conflicts? Things have changed a bit, tests are now [exposed](https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/pull/3412) in `packages`, but I'm not a...

This should work: ```nix homeConfigurations.test = home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration { pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; config.allowUnfree = true; }; modules = [ ... ]; }; ``` `homeManagerConfiguration` [uses](https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/blob/176e455371a8371586e8a3ff0d56ee9f3ca2324e/flake.nix#L83) the provided...

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7356