So, I'm attempting to add a plex package. I've followed the instructions in the 
nixpkgs manual (and cross-checked with contributing to nixpkgs on the wiki). 
It's all fine up until I run nix-build -A - it's going to attempt to build my 
package, but also goodly chunks of the full OS starting with glibc. I could 
understand this if I'd specified versions of libraries not in what hydra is 
currently building, but I've not. I suspect I'm either invoking nixbuild wrong 
(nix-build -K --dry-run -A plex-media-server from ~/src/nixpkgs) or I'm missing 
the nix equivalent of build-essential. Or I'm missing part of the point 
entirely, but I would have expected the docs (somewhere) to warn that 
attempting to run nix-build will attempt to compile a full toolchain from 
scratch (which requires a fair amount of diskspace and time).

Regards,
Oliver

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