Exclude packages with no files from the index. #266
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Noticed that nix-index-database "small" mostly consists of package(^p\0) lines without its corresponding path as many nix packages don't have entries under /bin/. This reduced the small index size from 3.9MB to 967K.
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Thanks, Raito! :) |
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Noticed that nix-index-database "small" mostly consists of package(^p\0) lines without its corresponding path as many nix packages don't have entries under /bin/.
This reduced the small index size from 3.9MB to 967K. Whereas the number of paths in the database is identical and equall to 82984(nix-index ran at
github:NixOS/nixpkgs/5aba99242eb2ca90cdc4eea40d61ad9157e5913c)