[hamandcheese]

NixOS "suffers" from this. It's really not that bad if you have solid bandwidth. For me it's more than worth the trade off. With a solid connection a major upgrade is still just a couple minutes.

[rlpb]

A couple of minutes at the moment that is, with dynamic linking everywhere. What will it become when everything is statically linked?

[hamandcheese]

I think you misunderstand my point. Nix basically forces dynamic linking to be more like static linking. So changing a low level library causes ~everything to redownload.