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> - didn't check if nixos uses it, but coreutil has a single binary mode (like busybox, a single binary is built and symlinks or hardlinks are used to provide all the commands); that might save some space

It does. If you have coreutils from Nixpkgs installed you can check this with

  basename "$(realpath "$(which ls)")"
If you see 'ls', you're looking at separate binaries. If you see 'coreutils', it's a symlink to a singular 'coreutils' binary.



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