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Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> It=E2=80=99s one thing to install all files that the plain text database=
 says
>> should be installed.  They all exist in the SVN repo.  It=E2=80=99s quite
>> another to generate them all from their respective sources.
>
> Nix separates them all, it provides the 2000+ packages.

This does not contradict what I wrote.  *Building* the packages differs
from just copying the generated files to their expected locations.  I
doubt Nix actually generates all these files from source.

--=20
Ricardo