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Automatically optimise the Nix store when a new path is added

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Auto-optimisation is enabled by default.  It can be turned off by
setting auto-optimise-store to false in nix.conf.
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Eelco Dolstra 2012-07-23 15:02:52 -04:00
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@ -337,7 +337,20 @@ build-use-chroot = /dev /proc /bin</programlisting>
<literal>true</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><literal>auto-optimise-store</literal></term>
<listitem><para>If set to <literal>true</literal> (the default),
Nix automatically detects files in the store that have identical
contents, and replaces them with hard links to a single copy.
This saves disk space. If set to <literal>false</literal>, you
can still run <command>nix-store --optimise</command> to get rid
of duplicate files.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>