A few years ago I tried installing (almost) every Arch package (https://unnamed.website/posts/installing-every-arch-package/) and surprisingly it was *only* 250 GB.
But what about doing this with NixOS by setting `environment.systemPackages = builtins.attrValues pkgs;`? Yeah I know this is a bad idea, but I'm curious exactly *how bad* it is
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I have a 4TB drive that I'm willing to sacrifice for this disaster of an experiment
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I NEED to set the Guinness world record for best Nix store
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If anyone wants to try my truly horrendous idea:
let
getpkgs = builtins.map (x: if (builtins.tryEval x).success && (builtins.isAttrs x) then (if builtins.hasAttr "name" x then x else getpkgs <| builtins.attrValues x) else []);
in
{
boot.isContainer = true;
environment.systemPackages = builtins.attrValues pkgs |> getpkgs |> lib.lists.flatten;
}
You'll also need to increase Nix's max-call-depth to 100000. (My laptop doesn't have enough RAM or disk space so not sure yet if this code works)
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I now have access to a much larger machine for this so wheee let's see how it goes...
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[1/77/26688 built, 16/75/44328 copied (1744.8/809913.4 MiB), 577.4/223195.7 MiB DL]
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Source code for this monstrosity now up at https://git.unnamed.website/everything.nix/tree/configuration.nix
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Actually the entirely of NixOS is much larger than a 223GB download, it's just that my earlier version of the code didn't properly recursively traverse pkgs
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Novice NixOS configs explicitly list the packages you want.
Enlightened NixOS configs start out including every package and you filter out the ones you don't want.
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/Cinny 
nixos-rebuild was so terrified it told me to set NIXOS_REBUILD_I_UNDERSTAND_THE_CONSEQUENCES_PLEASE_BREAK_MY_SYSTEM to 1 🤣
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In fact it did break my system by changing my shell from fish to a go fish game but fortunately I can just roll back
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Mark Eichin
eichin@mastodon.mit.edu@xy I approve (having shipped code with "--i-know-what-i-am-doing-is-wrong" and "-i-meant-that" flags :-)
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Now writing some Lean code to query cache.nixos.org using https://reservoir.lean-lang.org/@bergmannjg/Curl
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I finally installed all 71440 #NixOS packages in the official binary cache! https://unnamed.website/posts/installing-every-nixos-package/
I have no idea what to do next with this system...
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@schmidt_fu Sure, so I tried running `sbomnix /nix/var/nix/profiles/system` (no idea if I'm doing that correctly) but it didn't finish after 30 minutes. But maybe that's expected since it's processing 71440 packages?
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@xy How much storage space does 71+K of packages take?
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@apples_and_pears 640 GiB with btrfs compression, 1.22 TiB uncompressed.
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