Hi, On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Christof Douma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marc Weber schreef: > > Is the chance of having duplicated files bigger in the nix store than > > on a filesystem in general? > > Doesn't this take much time to compare each file against all others to > > find a minimal diff? > > So the basic question is : What does similar mean? > > My mind makes it: a new version of a packages. Like the pre-build > packages can be send by binary diffs. Instead of applying these to the > store, nix could simply give this diff to nixfs, which would apply the > patch to the base package at runtime.
That sounds like a job for a versionning tool, have you take a look at "gitfs"? -- Nicolas Pierron _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
