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Commits on Nov 12, 2020

  1. Update overview.tt 

    Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
    @garbas @edolstra
    garbas and edolstra authored Nov 12, 2020
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<p>
Since Nix never overwrites files in the Nix store, but just adds new
versions in different paths, upgrades are atomic. During an
upgrade, there is no time window in which some files exists from the
old version and some files from the new version - which would be bad
because a program might crash if it's restarted during that period.
upgrade, there is no time window in which a package is in an inconsistent state.
</p>
<p>
And since nothing is overwritten, the old versions are still there