On 05/17/2015 10:33 PM, Spencer Whitt wrote: > The nix-env -i feature mainly exists for historical reasons.
A nitpick: I don't think there were are any better reasons to have it in past than we have nowadays (it's just slower now that we have more packages). IMO the purpose is to offer interface similar to mainstream packagers. AFAIK nix was from the beginning a programming language dealing primarily with attribute paths instead of names. Vladimir
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