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Typing "nix-env -i" should not try to install every single package [2014]

typing “nix-env -i” should not try to install every single package · Issue #308 · NixOS/nix.
I did this by accident and was alarmed to find 5000 packages starting to download onto my machine, which seems wasteful from a bandwidth and a disk space perspective, given that few people would ac…

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