They have the same purpose but the implementation are different.
environment.etc
links files from nix store to /etc/static
then to /etc
. When the files are changed, the /etc/static
is updated first, then the whole /etc
is scanned to remove dangling symlinks.
I’m not sure how home-manager does this but I thought it’s different. I test the environment.etc
method on /home
and it takes several minutes to scan the files.
So my question is: Why does environment.etc
use such a method? How does home-manager do this? What’s the difference?
Thanks!