Archive of posts on Apr 16, 2026

• Apr 16, 2026

  Ways of reducing mass rebuilds in Nix without changing Nix

  One serious problem with Nix is the amount of mass rebuilds happening in Nixpkgs every time some package with many dependents and indirect dependents gets an update. Such updates often result in headaches in package maintaining as they cost much time on both the package maintainers and the CI machines that actually run the rebuilds. Is there any way to reduce mass rebuilds?

  • Categories: programming
  • Tags: nix