niv init pulls lots of data

nmattia / niv

Easy dependency management for Nix projects

https://github.com/nmattia/niv

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Closed yaitskov closed 3 years ago

yaitskov commented 3 years ago

net logger shows niv init pulls megabytes from internet, but generated nix folder is 16kb.

SuperSandro2000 commented 3 years ago

It is hashing the nixpkgs and niv repo for which it needs to download them.

nmattia commented 3 years ago

Completely agree! This has bugged me for a while. I also find the init command very slow. See #323 for a solution.