On 1/30/12 7:10 AM, Eelco Dolstra wrote: > Hi, > > On 30/01/12 12:40, Peter Simons wrote: > >> IHMO, this program should be run by the default builder after $out has been >> set >> up, to remove redundancy in the generated closures. > No, Nix should do that after the build has completed. If the Nix DB were to > store the cryptographic hash of every regular file in the store (with an index > from hashes to paths), it would be very easy to do this on the fly. And > "nix-store --optimise" would become a no-op. >
As long as there's an actual file comparison after hashes match... I'd hate for a collision to cause a file to be completely wrong! _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
