Nix LyonSyonII • 10 months ago • 50%

nix develop takes ages on big directories

I've been seeing that `nix develop` takes a very long time on large projects, and I believe it's due to the whole folder being copied to the `store`. `nix-shell` doesn't have this problem, but I need flakes specifically because they allow to have runtime libraries, which shell doesn't seem to support. (Translating flake.nix to a shell.nix exactly has different execution results.) What can I do? I've tried putting the flake.nix on an empty subfolder, and it solves it, but it's extremely tedious and clunky.