From ee0b90a6974bcbea60948f375e2892925395d3b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Quentin Aristote <62126931+qaristote@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 19:38:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] doc: minimal profile: explain building the configurations may be costly see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/319102 --- nixos/doc/manual/configuration/profiles/minimal.section.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/profiles/minimal.section.md b/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/profiles/minimal.section.md index 02a3b65ae422a..438d4daa98ccf 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/profiles/minimal.section.md +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/profiles/minimal.section.md @@ -7,3 +7,10 @@ graphical stuff. It's a very short file that enables only support the user-selected locale, [disables packages' documentation](#opt-documentation.enable), and [disables sound](#opt-sound.enable). + +With this profile enabled, a lot of package derivations will differ from the +ones available for download in the binary cache (because they are built with +X libraries enabled by default), and will thus have to be built locally. +Hence, while configurations built using this profile may be appropriate for +machines with low resources, the configurations themselves should still be +built on more powerful machines.