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SYMLINKS
SYMLINKS EVERYWHERE
(also 6000 packages intalled on my system for some reason lol)
Well, Nix has a very liberal definition of a "package". Your web browser, its wrapper script, a service file, a config file; those are all technically "packages" (or "derivation" as Nix calls them).
Doesn't it have a garbage collector like guix does (
guix gc), which cleans up everything in the store that isn't needed anymore?Yep, Nix-store -gc or some such will do something like this.
nix-collect-garbageI configured it to run every 7 days.