Every new release of the nixos-unstable channel leads to a download of around 42MB

Since using flakes together with nh i became aware that every time there is a new release of the nixos-unstable channel, it get’s downloaded as part of the update process and is around 42MB in size.

I was astonished at this large size and was wondering if there is a way to reduce it?

See Lockfiles bloat the Nixpkgs tarball · Issue #327064 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

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